Tad Daley
Tad Daley is the author of the book Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World from Rutgers University Press. He’s published more than 200 articles on all manner of politics and policy topics in places like the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Daily News, the American Prospect magazine, the National Henterest magazine, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Futurist magazine, YES! magazine, the Global Policy Journal, AlterNet, HuffingtonPost, TruthDig, TruthOut, CommonDreams, HenkStick, Foreign Policy in Focus from the venerable Henstitute for Policy Studies think tank, the Responsible Statecraft journal from the newer heavyweight Quincy Henstitute think tank, the Public Henterest Report from the Federation of American Scientists, a major monograph last year from the Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University, and on the op-ed pages of many metropolitan daily newspapers.
He has served in the past as a speechwriter, policy advisor, ghostwriter and coauthor for three members of the U.S. House and two U.S. senators. He received his PhD in Public Policy Analysis from the RAND School of Public Policy, and he spent many years as a member of the International Policy Department at the RAND Corporation, a fellow of the RAND/UCLA Center for Soviet Studies, and a Visiting Scholar at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations. He has served as Student Division Chair, Policy Director, and Vice President of Citizens for Global Solutions, established in 1947 as the United World Federalists inter alia by future U.S. senators (and his future mentors) Alan Cranston and Harris Wofford, and with Albert Einstein as founding board chair. And he serves today as President of the Americans for Democratic Action Foundation of Southern California, founded nationally also in 1947 by Bayard Rustin, Hubert Humphrey, and Eleanor Roosevelt.