‘The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age’

Keir Lieber is director of the Center for Security Studies and Security Studies Program and professor in the School of Foreign Service and Department of Government at Georgetown University. His research and teaching interests include nuclear weapons, deterrence, and strategy; technology and the causes of war; U.S. national security policy; and international relations theory. He is the author of War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology (Cornell University Press, 2005); and editor of War, Peace, and International Political Realism (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009). His articles have appeared in leading scholarly and foreign policy publications, including International Security, Security Studies, Foreign Affairs, and the Atlantic Monthly. He has been awarded major fellowships from the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Council on Foreign Relations, Earhart Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and Smith Richardson Foundation.

Daryl Press is associate professor of government and the coordinator of the Dickey Postdoctoral Fellows Program at Dartmouth College. He studies U.S. national security policy, in particular the changing global balance of power, the evolution of technology and warfare, and the future of deterrence. Press is the author of Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats and has published in leading academic journals such as International Security, the American Political Science Review, and Security Studies, as well as popular outlets including Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, and the Atlantic. He has consulted for the U.S. Defense Department for more than two decades and is a member of the U.S. State Department’s historical advisory committee. 

Dale Copeland is a professor of international relations in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia and a Miller Center senior fellow. He specializes in security studies and political economy and is the author of The Origins of Major War and Economic Interdependence and War. Other research interests include the origins of economic interdependence between great powers, the realist-constructivist divide, in-group/out-group theory and the logic of reputation-building, and the interconnection between international political economy and security studies. Copeland is the recipient of numerous awards, including MacArthur and Mellon fellowships and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.

Todd S. Sechser is the Pamela Feinour Edmonds and Franklin S. Edmonds Jr. Discovery Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is also a professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and a faculty senior fellow at the Miller Center. He is coauthor of the book Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and is the director of the Democratic Statecraft Lab, a project that aims to map the foundations of U.S. grand strategy for an era of great-power competition.