August 21, 2019
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- 'The clock is ticking': A year on from the Singapore summit Kim Jong Un is losing patience with Donald Trump's strategy
- 1 big thing: No deal in Hanoi
- 3 Questions: Historian Elizabeth Wood on election interference
- 3Q: John Tirman on a new US human rights commission
- A brief history of intelligence whistleblowing
- A look at Japan’s evolving intelligence efforts
- A look at US national security after Bolton's departure
- A look at the fallout from the Jamal Khashoggi case in Saudi Arabia
- A month after G20, Trump's Asia policy achievements appear to be unraveling
- A nuclear world with Vipin Narang
- A top Trump official may have just doomed US-North Korea talks
- A top US diplomat just laid out the new approach to North Korea. It’s doomed.
- A trilogy of decency: Posen, Mearsheimer, Walt and the US grand strategy
- AI meets bureaucratic politics
- Abe's mission unaccomplished: pushing to revise Japan's pacifist charter
- Africa insiders: Tiny Gambia stands up for the Rohingya
- After Trump and Kims handshake, what comes next in US-North Korean talks
- After the Cold War, an uncertain peace
- All things policy: talking nukes with Vipin Narang
- Amazing event North Korea lauds Trump-Kim meeting at border
- An interview with Dr Scott Sagan and Dr Vipin Narang
- Are nuclear weapons keeping the India-Pakistan crisis from escalating — or making it more dangerous?
- As North Korea doubles down on its nuclear weapons, Trump and the US are stuck with ‘strategic patience’
- At the Center for International Studies, a student endowment for women in international affairs
- BOOK REVIEW | ‘Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community’ by Richard J Samuels
- Best/worst cases for Trump-Kim II
- Billions dead: That's what could happen if India and Pakistan wage a nuclear war
- Book Review: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since1949
- Burna Boy, Timini Egbuson amongst others win big at TFAA 2019
- Chaguan | A chained dragon
- China says the US is undermining global stability
- Chinese and Iranian hackers renew their attacks on US companies
- Civilians evacuated from last ISIS-held village in Syria
- Co-designing assistive technologies in India
- Commerce and coercion
- Could someone actually steal a US nuke?
- Cultivating collaboration and innovation between MIT and Denmark
- Delhi denies asking Trump to mediate Kashmir dispute
- Did India shoot down a Pakistani jet? US count says no.
- Disbelief, joy and resistance as Saudi women get first passports
- Dueling investigations? Days before inspector general's report on FBI's Russia investigation, Trump promotes AG probe
- Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the US from using nuclear weapons first
- Ep 124: Nuclear war, deterrence and peace
- Even for a limited nuclear deal, North Korea may settle for nothing less than sanctions relief
- Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again
- Failed Russian nuclear test hints at Putin's dangerous plans to beat US defenses
- Fast, low and hard to stop: North Korea’s missile tests crank up the threat level
- Foreign Affairs reviews “Special Duty”
- Former NSA inspector: whistleblower does not need firsthand information
- Former inspector general on Trump & republicans attacking the whistleblower
- From focus to forgotten: Why no N Korea spotlight at UN?
- GOP lawmakers invited to WH today
- Greater Boston: Vindman testifies about Trump's Zelensky call and Volker revises his testimony
- Group of former intelligence community watchdogs call for protecting whistleblowers
- Heginbotham speaks about war games at inaugural Applied IR Speaker Series
- Hot new Japan book releases for the sweltering summer
- How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam
- How Pakistan is playing Washington—again
- Impeachment spotlights vulnerability of acting federal watchdogs
- Increasing threats against mobile devices force HHS, others to rethink protections
- India claims successful test of anti-satellite weapon
- India says committed to 'no first use' of nuclear weapons for now
- India slips further behind China during first five years of Modi
- India weighs military options against Pakistan as Kashmir tensions rise
- India, Pakistan exchange fire
- India–Pakistan nuclear escalation: where could it lead?
- India’s anti-satellite test wasn’t really about satellites
- Intelligence reforms: time for a Japanese James Bond
- Iran denies US claims about drone attack
- Iran says it has exceeded uranium limits set in 2015 nuclear deal
- Iran stance is straight from Trump's North Korea playbook
- Iran will stop complying with some parts of US nuclear deal
- Is Boston a cloud security hub
- Is India “creatively reinterpreting” its no-first-use policy?
- Is the US about to lower the bar for North Korea denuclearisation?
- Is the US inching closer to war with Iran?
- Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship
- It’s clearer than ever that the US’s North Korea policy is in total chaos
- Japanese report to say North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads
- Japanese spies, once renowned, have fallen on hard times
- Jeanne Guillemin, pioneering researcher who uncovered a Cold War secret, dies at 76
- Jeanne Guillemin, who exposed Soviet anthrax lab, dies at 76
- Joel Brenner comments on whistleblower issue
- Joel Brenner on whistleblower & Trump
- Joel Brenner: allegations that WH attempted to cover up Trump-Ukraine call records is "deeply troubling"
- Kashmir's fog of war: how conflicting accounts benefit both sides
- Kim Jong Un guided test-fire of new “superior tactical” weapon on Saturday: KCNA
- Kim Jong Un inspects submarine that experts fear could carry far-reaching missiles
- Kim Jong Un is pushing his own 'maximum pressure' campaign against Donald Trump with latest missile test, experts say
- Kim Jong Un may have faced ‘domestic hard line pressure’
- Kim Jong Un receives letter from Trump, saying he will seriously contemplate its interesting content
- Lamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
- Learning to study a painful past
- M Taylor Fravel, Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949
- M. Taylor Fravel on how the People's Liberation Army does military strategy
- MIT faculty launch collaborations around the world
- MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund launches
- Mapping urban transport
- Mike Pompeo again refuses to blame Kim Jong Un for Otto Warmbier’s death
- Military strategy and politics in the PRC
- Missile test site explosion raises questions about US-Russia nuclear competition
- Modi’s definitive win may mean a more assertive India
- NATO at 70: Is it time to overhaul one of America's oldest alliances?
- NATO summit begins amid tensions
- NYT: Saudi Crown Prince said he'd use 'bullet' on Khashoggi
- Narendra Modi v Imran Khan: Who won the war of perception?
- Neocon-led US Venezuela policy, rhetoric trigger deja vu effect
- New images of Kim Jong Un’s horseback ride at a sacred mountain suggest the country’s promised ‘Christmas gift’ will defy Trump
- North Korea conducts second weapons test in under a week
- North Korea conducts ‘crucial test’ as deadline nears
- North Korea could gift the US a long-range missile for Christmas, MIT professor says
- North Korea denies reports of behind-the-scenes talks with US in sharp rebuttal to South Korea's Moon
- North Korea doubts US will have alternative plans inside two weeks
- North Korea escalates missile tests
- North Korea fires ballistic missile, possibly from submarine, days before talks
- North Korea has been testing ballistic missiles. So why won’t Trump use the B word?
- North Korea launches two short-range missiles, at same time as US ICBM test
- North Korea missile tests, ‘very standard’ to Trump, show signs of advancing arsenal
- North Korea pulls out of liaison office with the South in blow to warming ties
- North Korea test-fires new ‘tactical guided weapon,’ with Kim Jong Un there to observe
- North Korea tested a missile over the weekend. The Trump admin flubbed the response.
- North Korea threatens Japan with 'real ballistic missile'
- North Korea warns it's up to the US to decide what 'Christmas gift' it will get
- North Korea weapons test may have included ballistic missile
- North Korean leader visits sacred mountain as speculation grows of fresh provocation
- North Korean missile and Kim Jong-un's 'Christmas gift' decision
- North Korean missile launch a 'new type of threat,' South Korea says
- North Korea’s improved missile systems spark ‘deadline’ concerns
- North Korea’s new weapons, and how they affect Trump’s nuclear deal hopes, explained
- Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan face off in renewed escalation
- One year on, shadow of Khashoggi’s killing stalks Saudi prince
- Opening the arsenal
- Over 1,000 MIT students, researchers to India in last two decades
- Picture from Washington: Not so rosy on Kashmir
- Podcast: Indo-Pak tensions; and when foreign policy matters for domestic politics
- Pompeo visits elite event as Trump policies raise questions
- Relaunched: The new nuclear arms race with Russia
- Revolution in military affairs and India’s defense preparedness
- Richard Samuels on "Special Duty"
- Robots, war, climate: is apocalyptic rhetoric dangerous for Democratic candidates?
- Russian scientist in city near nuclear explosion warns locals not to fish, says agency 'committed a crime'
- SMA debate: Why shouldn’t South Korea pay more for its defense?
- Saudi Arabia again under UN scrutiny as anniversary of Khashoggi killing nears
- Saudi Arabia embraces western sports to rehabilitate global image
- Saudi Arabia listed feminism, atheism, and homosexuality as forms of extremism. Then they (sort of) took it back.
- Seoul: North Korea tests short-range projectiles
- Shola Lawal on human rights and social justice
- Sources say
- Special Duty: "Best of Books 2019" by Foreign Affairs
- Special duty
- Suzanne Berger named inaugural John M Deutch Institute Professor
- Taylor Fravel named director of the MIT Security Studies Program
- Tensions are rising between India and Pakistan. But Washington doesn’t seem that bothered.
- Tests and temptations: The nuclear balance in Asia
- The (evolving) art of war
- The BradCast
- The Cybersecurity 202: CyberCom sent a message by taking down a troll farm on Election Day. Was Russia listening?
- The Cybersecurity 202: SCIF fight shows lawmakers can be their own biggest cybersecurity vulnerability
- The IT and biological technology link
- The North Korean nuclear crisis
- The Russian Navy: A submarine powerhouse?
- The art of no deal: how Trump and Kim misread each other
- The difficulty of basing US missiles in Asia
- The importance of academics engaging with policymakers
- The intersection of technology and war
- The media hands Trump a hollow victory on North Korea
- The uncertain role of natural gas in the transition to clean energy
- To NASA's mission Shakti rebuke, ex-defence research chief's rebuttal
- To contain Iran, Trump’s newest line in the sand looks a lot like Obama’s
- Trump administration downplays fears of post-treaty arms race
- Trump agrees to second Kim summit as nuke deal remains elusive
- Trump and Kim exchange letters, but will they meet at DMZ
- Trump and Kim open 2nd nuclear summit
- Trump and South Korea: ‘Nothing says I love you like a shakedown’
- Trump appears to confirm US nukes are in Turkey, an admission that would break with longstanding protocol
- Trump appears to contradict Bolton on North Korea, expresses ‘confidence’ in Kim
- Trump blames Iran for attack on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman
- Trump heads to Hanoi for second summit with Kim
- Trump offers North Korea's Kim weekend meeting in demilitarized zone
- Trump officials privately bracing for North Korea's next move
- Trump says Kim Jong Un risks losing 'everything' after North Korea claims major test
- Trump says he looks forward to seeing Kim Jong Un 'in the not too distant future'
- Trump says no to eased sanctions, but South Korea's Moon keeps nuclear talks with Kim alive
- Trump steps over North Korean border and into controversial nuclear negotiations
- Trump to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un in Vietnam in two weeks for the pair's second summit
- Trump unveils ambitious missile defense plans
- Trump's 'great chemistry' with Kim Jong Un put to test at summit
- Trump's artificial intelligence order lacks funding but not a target — China
- Trump's bizarre claims about Russian invasion of Afghanistan
- Trump, Kim fail to reach agreement in Hanoi after talks abruptly collapse
- Trump-Kim handshake may be meaningless without bridging denuclearization differences
- Trump-Kim talks or not, North Korea’s nuclear arsenal apparently continues to grow
- Trumps whirlwind weekend in Asia
- Trump’s diplomacy with Kim dims as both sides return to hard-line positions
- US imposes first N. Korea-linked sanctions since failed summit
- US nuclear bombs at Turkish airbase complicate rift over Syria invasion
- US risks emboldening Kim with muted response to missile test
- US still hopes for talks after latest North Korean missile tests
- Understanding populism
- Victim ideology part 1
- Wargames and the sources of nuclear restraint
- Was Donald Trump’s North Korea summit a failure?
- Washington and Seoul postpone military drills in bid to boost stalled diplomacy with Pyongyang
- Watch | ‘No First Use’ in India’s Nuclear Doctrine
- We need to not freak out about the robot revolution
- We should assume Iran is responsible for attacks on oil tankers, says Jim Walsh
- Weakened and unstable Trump gives Korea the jitters
- What 2018 looked like fifty years ago
- What is next after Iran strike called off?
- What we are reading today: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor Fravel
- What would a US grand strategy of restraint look like?
- Who left the island? Who got the rose? The Trump-Kim summit played out like a reality show.
- Why North Korea’s restored rocket site isn’t cause for worry — yet
- Why whistleblower standoff represents a ‘unique juncture’ for US government
- With new North Korea-US talks likely, will a deal result?
- World powers react to Iran exceeding limits in nuclear deal
- “Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949” by M Taylor Fravel
- “Active Defense” by Taylor Fravel
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