Daryl Press’ research and teaching focus on U.S. foreign policy, deterrence, and the future of warfare. He has published two books, Calculating Credibility (2005) and The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution (2020), and his work has appeared in leading academic journals such as International Security, the American Political Science Review, and Security Studies, as well as in the popular press including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and The Atlantic Monthly. Press is the co-founder of the Strategic Forces Bootcamp, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, and the Seminar on Conventional Force Analysis, a project to revitalize the field of open-source conventional force analysis. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Daryl Press
Faculty Director, Davidson Institute for Global Security
