Daryl G. Press
Professor
Appointments
Faculty Director, Davidson Institute for Global Security
Professor of Government
Area of Expertise
U.S. national security policy,
changing technology and warfare,
nuclear deterrence
Biography
Daryl Press's 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 Boot Camp, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, and the inaugural Faculty Director of the Davidson Institute for Global Security at Dartmouth. Press consults regularly for the U.S. Defense Department and he is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education
B.A. University of Chicago
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications
"Access Denied? U.S. Airpower vs. China's A2/AD in Maritime East Asia," International Security (2025) (with N. Anderson)
"Lost Seoul: Assessing Pyongyang's Other Deterrent," Texas National Security Review (2025) (with N. Anderson).
"Strategies of Prioritization: American Foreign Policy After Primacy," Foreign Affairs (2025) (with J. Lind).
"The Return of Nuclear Escalation," Foreign Affairs (2023) (with K. Lieber)
"South Korea's Nuclear Options," Foreign Affairs (2023) (with J. Lind)
"The New Era of Counterforce: Technological Change and the Future of Nuclear Deterrence," International Security (2017): 7-44 (with K. Lieber).
-- Best Article, awarded by the International Security section of the APSA, 2018.
"The New Era of Nuclear Arsenal Vulnerability," Physics and Society (2018) (with K. Lieber).
"Atomic Aversion: Experimental Evidence on Taboos, Traditions, and the Non-use of Nuclear Weapons," American Political Science Review (2013): 188-206 (with S. Sagan and B. Valentino).
Books
The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Nuclear Age, Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, Cornell University Press, with K. Lieber (2020).
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