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The Security Studies Program ushered in the first day of the fall semester with a welcome meeting and boxed lunch. SSP Director M. Taylor Fravel took this time to introduce the new PhD students and program fellows. The 2026-27 academic year includes four incoming PhD students,
In their latest paper for Contemporary Security Policy, Former Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows Samuel Seitz and Lauren Sukin explore how public opinion influences the credibility of coercive nuclear threats, and how it enables and constrain strategies of nuclear coercion.
MIT’s Wargaming Lab is seeking a Program Coordinator to provide operational and administrative support; coordinate events, meetings, and seminars; and provide day-to-day operational activities. The coordinator will work closely with the co-directors of the Lab in developing,
This week the Security Studies Program hosted New Faces in Chinese Politics. Advanced PhD students and post-doctoral fellows who study Chinese domestic and international policy presented their papers and received feedback from university faculty ahead of this week’s annual
A new paper from @RANDCorporation describes the wargame Camp(ai)gn, an unclassified operational-level game designed to explore the military implications of advanced artificial intelligence (AI). The game allows players to examine how AI and the autonomous robotic systems it
