David Wright is a physicist and researcher in the Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy at MIT. He has worked on nuclear security issues at the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Defense and Arms Control/Security Studies Program at MIT, the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and the Federation of American Scientists. He received his PhD in physics from Cornell University in 1983 and worked as a research physicist until 1988. His research has included technical aspects of nuclear weapons policy, missile defense systems, missile proliferation, hypersonic weapons, and space weapons. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
