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	In the News April 1, 2019 NATO at 70: Is it time to overhaul one of America's oldest alliances? Meghna ChakrabartiWBUR Barry Posen says President Trump might be right — and that it’s time to rethink one of America’s oldest international alliances.
	In the News April 1, 2019 How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Benjamin HaasThe Guardian “The reason to do it publicly is to leave a calling card, to show the world that Kim Jong-un is not afraid to use a weapon of mass destruction at a crowded international airport,” said Vipin Narang, a politics professor at MIT.
	In the News March 28, 2019 Scholar as detective Andrew EricksonAmerican University Magazine A gambler pulling the lever of a slot machine is not that different from a researcher elbow-deep in archival material, says Joseph Torigian (MIT ’16).
	In the News March 27, 2019 India claims successful test of anti-satellite weapon Geoff BrumfielNPR Testing a missile capable of hitting a satellite is “a hop, skip and a jump away from a ballistic missile defense test,” Narang says.
	In the News March 27, 2019 India’s anti-satellite test wasn’t really about satellites Daniel OberhausWired Narang says, India’s anti-satellite test is difficult to make sense of because it is “both more dependent on satellites than Pakistan and it’s also less capable in a relative sense than China.”“If Pakistan starts hitting Indian satellites, India can knock out Pakistan’s very few satellites,” notes Narang.
	In the News March 27, 2019 Mike Pompeo again refuses to blame Kim Jong Un for Otto Warmbier’s death Nick VisserHuffington Post “The administration is trying to square the circle between holding the regime responsible for its treatment of Otto Warmbier, but not criticize Kim directly — who they are trying to keep from testing a satellite launch vehicle, or worse, and to keep the diplomatic process from completely imploding,” Vipin Narang, an associate professor at MIT, told HuffPost.
	In the News March 26, 2019 Wargames and the sources of nuclear restraint Reid B.C. PaulyHarvard Belfer Center Reid Pauly explains how declassified records of wargames played by US policymakers can reveal why nuclear weapons have not been used since 1945.
	In the News March 25, 2019 Co-designing assistive technologies in India Madeline SmithMIT News MIT students connect with premier Indian institutes, hospitals, and students to collaborate on “humanistic” assistive design.
	In the News March 22, 2019 North Korea pulls out of liaison office with the South in blow to warming ties Min Joo Kim and Simon DenyerThe Washington Post Vipin Narang described the latest development as “ominous” but agreed it was more likely a pressure tactic than a sign of an irrevocable rift. “The optimistic view is it is very calibrated signaling designed to get the U.S. to move away from insisting on complete surrender up front,” he said. “The pessimistic reading, which I don’t yet share,” he added, “is that Kim has decided after Hanoi that it’s over and that he’s lost the will to negotiate further, and is now just prepping the battlefield, quite literally, for a return to hostile relations.”
	In the News March 21, 2019 US imposes first N. Korea-linked sanctions since failed summit Steve HermanVoice of America “Insisting on unilateral North Korean disarmament upfront is pushing on the wrong door. We should be pushing to first slow the program, then cap it, and ultimately keep rollback and disarmament the long-term goal,” said Vipin Narang. “But every month that passes without a grand deal is one in which North Korea's nuclear program continues to grow larger — increasing the risk of its own use and proliferation to other countries — and the chances of a deal grow smaller.”