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Leyatt Betre is a Professional Fellow with ��Ʒ������’s Center for Presidential History, where she studies the politics of state-science relations in the twentieth century. Leyatt’s research sits at the intersection of histories of science and technology and American diplomatic history. She is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled, Arms Control Under Water: How the U.S. Navy Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, which investigates the significance of interwar efforts at naval arms control in shaping the U.S. Navy’s subsequent approach to debates over the control of atomic energy. By delving into the institutional transformations effected by the interwar practice of arms control and the succeeding generation’s incorporation of scientific and technical expertise into the force planning process, Arms Control Under Wateraims to bridge the prevailing midcentury discontinuity in the historiography of arms control and military technology.

 

Leyatt is also a Research Collaborator with Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, where her work traces the historical role of scientists and technical communities in international debates over nuclear governance. She received her PhD in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University in 2022.