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The Security Studies Program at MIT is accepting applications for the Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows Program. We are looking for the next generation of thought leaders in nuclear security by supporting research that will advance policy-relevant understanding of the subject. Fellowships are available for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral scholars and for junior faculty. Fellows will be in residence at MIT and receive a ten-month stipend.
Application deadline is November 30, 2026. Decisions will be announced in January 2027. Information & application: ssp.news/StantonApply
Recently, SSP Director M. Taylor Fravel joined a panel of experts to discuss, “What Would the US Do in a Middle Power Order?” This discussion, featuring Anne-Marie Slaughter, incoming dean of public policy at the London School of Economics, opened the @MIT_CIS 75th anniversary celebration.
Bookmark the recording🎞️ youtu.be/WF-ykYKpopA?si=DpIk…
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In our upcoming Wednesday Seminar, Georgetown University Professor Evan Medeiros will discuss a range of China-related topics including East Asian security, US-China relations, and modern Chinese and American defense and foreign policy. Learn more: ssp.mit.edu/events/2026/chin…
🗓️10/21 at noon ET
📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496
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Join us for tomorrow's Wednesday Seminar, in which Georgetown University Professor Evan Medeiros will discuss a range of China-related topics including East Asian security, US-China relations, and modern Chinese and American defense and foreign policy.
🗓️10/21 at noon ET
📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496
📡Bookmark the livestream
youtube.com/live/TFxJ3oQquOc…
Thank you, Lennart Maschmeyer, for your discussion, “Deception and Detection: Why AI Empowers Cyber Defense over Offense,” at last week’s Wednesday Seminar.
💻ICYMI catch up with the recorded stream: youtube.com/live/A-sxLmqpdEI
@LenMaschmeyer
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Recently, @mbudjeryn, senior researcher at the Center for Nuclear Security Policy, joined a panel of experts to examine how European allies can strengthen deterrence and reassurance while maintaining alliance cohesion and managing the risks of proliferation and escalation.
Hosted by @BIGEurope.
📺view the recorded stream: youtu.be/Ql4Hjcm6CRI?si=HcmZ…
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Join us for tomorrow's Wednesday Seminar, in which Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Lennart Maschmeyer examines the limits of AI through the gaps between offensive and defensive capabilities. Learn more: ssp.mit.edu/events/2026/dece…
🗓️10/14 at noon ET
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Thank you, Eric Evans, former director of @MITLL, for your discussion, “Technology Priorities for National Security,” at last week’s Wednesday Seminar.
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Former Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Fellow @JoshuaASchwartz and coauthor @sabrinabarias release a new study that provides one of the few causally identified tests of local policy makers’ climate policy preferences.
Read the paper via Perspectives on Politics:
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In our upcoming Wednesday Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Lennart Maschmeyer examines the limits of AI through the gaps between offensive and defensive capabilities.
🗓️10/14 at noon ET
📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496
📡Bookmark the livestream
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We are pleased to announce that SSP Research Affiliate Fiona Cunningham has been awarded the 2025 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security (Princeton University Press, 2025).
🎉Congratulations, Fiona!
The award, presented by @mershoncenter for International Security Studies, is conferred on a first book in English that makes an exceptional contribution to the understanding of international, national, or human security. Learn more: mershoncenter.osu.edu/news/f…
@Fiona_Cunning
Join us for tomorrow's Wednesday Seminar, in which Eric D. Evans, former director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory (@MITLL), will examine national security technology priorities for improving defense and deterrence capabilities.
🗓️10/7 at noon ET
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Thank you, Pierre Chao, for your discussion, “Structure, Dynamics and Evolution of the US Defense Industry,” during last week’s Wednesday Seminar.
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Mariana Budjeryn, senior researcher at the Center for Nuclear Security Policy, examines the history of Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament and the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.
📰Read her full piece via @EPIK_Ukraine: epik.eu/publication/budapest…
@mbudjeryn
In our upcoming Wednesday Seminar, Eric D. Evans, former director of
@MITLL, will examine national security technology priorities for improving defense and deterrence capabilities.
🗓️10/7 at noon ET
📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496
📡Bookmark the livestream
youtube.com/live/4o97tGOCKNU
