Rosamund Johnston

is a REWIRE postdoctoral fellow at RECET. She is currently researching the global history of Czechoslovakia between 1954 and 1994 through its arms trade.

Articles

Cover for: The lives and afterlives of Cold War weapons

In socialist Czechoslovakia, one of the world’s biggest arms exporters, issues of durability and demise were taken into account. Why, then, do Cold War weapons continue to resurface in deadly attacks and armed conflicts across the globe, well beyond their alleged obsolescence?