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Solving puzzles of international trade, war, and order
For Mariya Grinberg, the start of a research project often begins with a near-tangible sense of irritation.“I’d read something, a definition or idea that doesn’t make sense, that seems logically...
View ArticleA look at how countries go nuclear — and why some do not
In 1993, South Africa announced to a largely surprised world that it had built nuclear weapons in the 1980s, before dismantling its arsenal. For the first time, a country outside of the elite world...
View ArticleBuilding technological tools for nuclear disarmament
Mentorship has played a central role in the twists and turns of Associate Professor Areg Danagoulian’s life.As a boy, it led him first to mathematics, where a passionate teacher and mentorship from his...
View ArticleIs an armed conflict imminent?
In recent weeks it has seemed increasingly possible that Russia will invade Ukraine. But why is this threat unfolding now, and what is likely to occur? An online panel of experts held by MIT last...
View ArticleFrom modeling quantum devices to political systems
When most students are 17, they’re preparing college applications and planning for prom. When Sihao Huang was 17, he was meeting with officials from the U.S. Department of Defense and the Federal...
View ArticleResearch aims to mitigate chemical and biological airborne threats
When the air harbors harmful matter, such as a virus or toxic chemical, it's not always easy to promptly detect this danger. Whether spread maliciously or accidentally, how fast and how far could...
View ArticleQ&A: Elizabeth Wood on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
In its first days, Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine in late February has been met with substantial resistance. It has also created civilian casualties, a refugee crisis, a global movement to...
View ArticleUnderstanding the war in Ukraine
MIT’s Security Studies Program (SSP) presented a special seminar on March 2 entitled, "Understanding the War in Ukraine." Over 100 alumni and affiliates in far-flung locations tuned in to hear the...
View ArticleReviving war-game scholarship at MIT
War games and crisis simulations are exercises where participants make decisions to simulate real-world behavior. In the field of international security, games are frequently used to study how actors...
View ArticleWhat Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means for the world
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has global implications. A panel of MIT foreign policy experts convened on Monday to examine those reverberations — on European domestic politics, the refugee crisis,...
View ArticleFeatured video: In service of the nation
MIT has offered military training since 1865. Today, the Institute hosts U.S. Air Force, Army, and Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) programs.In this video, Navy ROTC Midshipman Juliana...
View ArticleWhen dueling narratives deepen a divide
For more than four decades, the U.S. and Iran have had a relentlessly poor relationship. To be sure, it is hardly a shock that tensions would run high between the countries following the hostage crisis...
View ArticleEleanor Freund receives Jeanne Guillemin Prize
The daughter of an American diplomat, Eleanor Freund spent most of her childhood living abroad in such places as Madagascar, Ghana, South Africa, and Austria. These experiences, she explains, led to an...
View ArticleCongressional seminar introduces MIT faculty to 30 Washington staffers
More than 30 congressional and executive branch staffers were hosted by MIT’s Security Studies Program (SSP) for a series of panels and a keynote address focused on contemporary national security...
View ArticlePromoting systemic change in the Middle East, the “MIT way”
The Middle East is a region that is facing complicated challenges. MIT programs have been committed to building scalable methodologies through which students and the broader MIT community can learn and...
View ArticleJung Jae Kwon: Questioning the nuclear umbrella
Many of America’s allies have little faith that huddling under America’s nuclear umbrella will keep them safe. “The conventional wisdom has been that the threat of nuclear retaliation by the U.S. is...
View ArticleWhere Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stands
Editor’s note: Since this event was held on Oct. 7, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has continued to evolve, including airstrikes on Ukrainian cities following an explosion that damaged a key bridge...
View ArticleAdvancing the energy transition amidst global crises
“The past six years have been the warmest on the planet, and our track record on climate change mitigation is drastically short of what it needs to be,” said Robert C. Armstrong, MIT Energy Initiative...
View ArticleEnergy, war, and the crisis in Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is having a global impact on many areas of the world today, affecting the balance of power among states and creating a contest between democratic and authoritarian...
View ArticleImproving the speed and safety of airport security screening
For decades, airports around the nation have employed sensitive canine noses to detect concealed explosives. While this four-legged fleet has been effective and efficient, researchers have yet to build...
View ArticleJupneet Singh: Finding purpose through service
As a first-year U.S. Air Force cadet in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), Jupneet Singh never imagined she would rise to the rank of wing commander by the end of her MIT career. She...
View ArticleAssessing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after a year of war
Ukraine has been withstanding Russia’s invasion for slightly more than a year. One element of this resistance has been the military aid many allies have provided Ukraine. But surely the most important...
View Article3 Questions: The Iraq invasion, 20 years later
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the United States-led invasion of Iraq. Code-named “Operation Iraqi Freedom” by the George W. Bush administration, the goal was to eliminate weapons of mass...
View ArticleResponding to Ukraine’s “ocean of suffering”
Within 72 hours of the first Russian missiles striking Kyiv, Ukraine, in February 2022, Ian Miller SM ’19 boarded a flight for Poland.Later, he’d say he felt motivated by Kyiv's “tragic ocean of...
View ArticleA transformative era ends at the Center for International Studies
In the early 1980s, Richard Samuels PhD ’80 was an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, specializing in Japanese politics and public policy. With the rapid emergence of Japan as...
View ArticleThree MIT-led projects awarded MURI funding for 2023
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced the recipients of its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards for 2023. This year, MIT Department of Mechanical...
View ArticleSuzanne Freeman and Mariel Garcia-Montes receive 2023 Jeanne Guillemin Prize
Suzanne Freeman and Mariel Garcia-Montes are the recipients of this year’s Jeanne Guillemin Prize at the Center for International Studies (CIS).The prize provides financial support to women studying...
View ArticleEducating national security leaders on artificial intelligence
Understanding artificial intelligence and how it relates to matters of national security has become a top priority for military and government leaders in recent years. A new three-day custom program...
View ArticleA new dataset of Arctic images will spur artificial intelligence research
As the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) icebreaker Healy takes part in a voyage across the North Pole this summer, it is capturing images of the Arctic to further the study of this rapidly changing region....
View ArticleLeading business past dollars and cents
How does Annabel Flores work to defeat a broken STEM pipeline while solving our country’s biggest aerospace and defense challenges? She uses a voice the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program...
View ArticleApekshya Prasai: Up in arms
Although women’s wartime roles and agency tend to be neglected in conventional discourses on conflict, there are times when women not only take up arms but also shape the practices and policies of...
View ArticleFour Lincoln Laboratory technologies win five 2023 R&D 100 awards
Ultrasound that doesn’t require touching patients. A web-based tool that reinvents crew scheduling for the Air Force. Cryptographic hardware that protects sensitive data. And the world’s first...
View ArticleQ&A: The BRICS expansion and the global balance of power
In early September, the BRICS group of countries with emerging economies — an informal alliance among Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — announced it would expand its ranks by six...
View ArticleMilitary students innovate technology solutions for US Special Operations...
All eyes were on the robot-dog pacing the hangar on Hanscom Air Force Base. The robot was just one technology, among small drones, autonomous mapping vehicles, and virtual-environment simulators, set...
View ArticlePanel examines Israel-Hamas conflict
As the armed conflict between Israel and Hamas unfolds, observers and news reports depict the prospect of a near-term halt in warfare as being unlikely. A panel of experts at an MIT public event on...
View ArticleForeign policy scholars examine the China-Russia relationship
What is the nature of the relationship between China and Russia today, and how extensively will the two countries keep cooperating in the future? It is a leading question of international relations.On...
View ArticleEric Evans to step down as director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Eric Evans will be stepping down as director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory on July 1, 2024, after 18 years leading a laboratory that has served the nation through its technology research and development...
View ArticleMinicourse open to the MIT community gives context to the Middle East crisis
MIT community members can learn more about the Israel-Hamas conflict through a recently developed online course organized by Middle East and North Africa (MENA)/MIT at MIT’s Center for International...
View ArticleSoaring high, in the Army and the lab
Starting off as a junior helicopter pilot, Lt. Col. Jill Rahon deployed to Afghanistan three times. During the last one, she was an air mission commander, the pilot who is designated to interface with...
View ArticleA careful rethinking of the Iraq War
The term “fog of war” expresses the chaos and uncertainty of the battlefield. Often, it is only in hindsight that people can grasp what was unfolding around them.Now, additional clarity about the Iraq...
View ArticleModeling the threat of nuclear war
It’s a question that occupies significant bandwidth in the world of nuclear arms security: Could hypersonic missiles, which fly at speeds of least five times the speed of sound, increase the likelihood...
View ArticleEric Evans receives Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service
On May 31, the U.S. Department of Defense's chief technology officer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu, presented Eric Evans with the Department of Defense (DoD) Medal...
View ArticleOwen Coté, military technology expert and longtime associate director of the...
Owen Coté PhD ’96, a principal research scientist with the MIT Security Studies Program (SSP), passed away on June 8 after battling cancer. He joined SSP in 1997 as associate director, a role he held...
View ArticleMelissa Choi named director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Melissa Choi has been named the next director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory, effective July 1. Currently assistant director of the laboratory, Choi succeeds Eric Evans, who will step down on June 30 after...
View ArticleThe rules of the game
At the core of Raymond Wang’s work lies a seemingly simple question: Can’t we just get along?Wang, a fifth-year political science graduate student, is a native of Hong Kong who witnessed firsthand the...
View Article3 Questions: Preparing students in MIT’s Naval ROTC program
Being able to say, “I fly helicopters” — specifically the Seahawk series that boast a maximum cruise elevation of 10,000 feet and 210 miles per hour — must be a great conversation starter. So must...
View ArticleLincoln Laboratory and National Strategic Research Institute launch student...
The following announcement was released jointly by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the National Strategic Research Institute.MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) at...
View Article3 Questions: From the bench to the battlefield
Pursuing an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program project (or two or three) is a quintessential part of the academic experience at MIT. The program, known as UROP, allows students to be “shoulder...
View ArticleNurturing success
The start and finish of a degree program are pivotal moments in the lives of MIT's graduate students. In her first three years in MIT’s Department of Political Science, professor Mariya Grinberg’s...
View ArticleEnabled by a significant gift, MIT’s Security Studies Program launches the...
MIT’s Security Studies Program has received a $45 million gift from The Stanton Foundation to expand its leading work on the vital issue of global nuclear security.The support will allow the program to...
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