David McDonough

David S. McDonough is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada and a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canadian Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral) holder. He is also a Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University. Previously, he held positions at the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, the Royal Canadian Military Institute and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He completed a B.A. (Hons.) at Simon Fraser University and an M.A. in Political Science at the University of British Columbia.

His general research interests are on US nuclear strategy, Canadian-American defence co-operation, and the non-proliferation and arms control regime. He has published widely on a number of international security issues, including four co-edited collections on various international security issues as well as in International Journal, RUSI Journal, SITREP, Strategic Datalink and The Transatlantic Quarterly. His most recent publication is an Adelphi Paper monograph, entitled 'Nuclear Superiority': The ‘New Triad’ and the Evolution of Nuclear Strategy.

The author would like to thank Frank Harvey and Dan Middlemiss for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper.