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Daryl G. Press
Researcher at Dartmouth College
Publications - 32
Citations - 1345
Daryl G. Press is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nuclear weapon & Nuclear ethics. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 32 publications receiving 1217 citations. Previous affiliations of Daryl G. Press include University of Pennsylvania & Harvard University.
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Calculating credibility : how leaders assess military threats
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use historical evidence, including declassified documents, to answer two crucial questions: When a country backs down in a crisis, does its credibility suffer? How do leaders assess their adversaries' credibility?
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Come Home, America: The Strategy of Restraint in the Face of Temptation
TL;DR: The authors advocate a foreign policy of restraint-the disengagement of America's military forces from the rest of the world, which is a modern form of isolationism: we adopt its military policy of withdrawal, but reject its traditional economic protectionism.
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The End of MAD? The Nuclear Dimension of U.S. Primacy
Keir A. Lieber,Daryl G. Press +1 more
TL;DR: The United States now stands on the verge of attaining nuclear primacy, meaning that it could conceivably disarm the long-range nuclear arsenals of Russia and China with a nuclear first strike as discussed by the authors.
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Atomic Aversion: Experimental Evidence on Taboos, Traditions, and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons
TL;DR: The authors found that the public has only a weak aversion to using nuclear weapons and that this aversion has few characteristics of an “unthinkable” behavior or taboo, instead, public attitudes about whether to use nuclear weapons are driven largely by consequentialist considerations of military utility.
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The New Era of Counterforce: Technological Change and the Future of Nuclear Deterrence
Keir A. Lieber,Daryl G. Press +1 more
TL;DR: In the nuclear age, counter-force disarming attacks were nearly impossible because of the ability of potential victims to hide and protect their nuclear arsenals as mentioned in this paper. But advances rooted in the computer revolution have made nuclear forces around the world considerably more vulnerable.