Scott Kaufman is a Board of Trustees Research Scholar and chair of the Department of History at Francis Marion University, where he teaches such classes as “U.S. Military History” and “The Vietnam War.” He is the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books on American military, diplomatic, and presidential history, including Project Plowshare: The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosives in Cold War America, and Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford.