A new exhibition explores how Scotland was put on the frontline of a stand-off between the world's great superpowers.
"From 1961, when the US submarines arrived, Scotland became a legitimate target for nuclear attack," says Dr Meredith Greiling, the woman in charge of a new exhibition on the Cold War.
In the wake of World War Two, the nuclear age presented the opportunity for jobs and cheap power generation but it also carried the looming threat of nuclear annihilation. One of the most controversial installations was the US Navy's ballistic missile submarine base at Holy Loch. When she left school in 1968, she worked for the Royal Observer Corps and was trained to carry out a very specific task in the event of nuclear weapons being launched.
Another major part of the exhibition is the stories of those who protested against the nuclear installations in Scotland.She started campaigning at the age of 17 while studying at the University of Aberdeen in 1960, joining protest marches on RAF Edzell and Aldermaston, the site of the UK government's atomic weapons programme.
These underground bunkers formed a network established in the 1950s to protect high-value targets from potential aerial attack.
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