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Analysis + OpinionAugust 18, 2017Revisit NIH biosafety guidelinesKenneth OyeScienceThe NIH recently marked the 40th anniversary of its Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules.The meeting was an inspiring start for charting future oversight of nonclinical applications. |
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Analysis + OpinionAugust 18, 2017It's time to make Afghanistan someone else's problemBarry PosenThe AtlanticAfghanistan...is a good place to create problems for America’s adversaries. And the best way to do that is to get out, says Barry Posen. |
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In the NewsAugust 18, 2017What Robert E Lee wrote to The Times about slavery in 1858Jacey FortinNew York TimesOne day in January, a few years before the Civil War, Robert E Lee wrote to The New York Times, seeking a correction, writes former CIS Neuffer fellow Jacey Fortin. Fortin now reports full-time for the The New York Times. |
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Analysis + OpinionAugust 10, 2017North Korea, Trump, and strategic stabilityVipin Narang and Ankit PandaWar on the RocksWords matter, especially when nuclear weapons use is on the line. In a matter of 30 seconds on a Tuesday afternoon, Trump negotiated himself into a disastrous strategic corner.
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Analysis + OpinionAugust 5, 2017The US will keep losing wars until it decides what it stands forHarvey SapolskyNational InterestDespite the promises, the panels and the pronouncements, a grand strategy for the United States, on par with the Cold War’s containment and Germany’s unconditional surrender during World War II, remains elusive. |
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Analysis + OpinionJuly 18, 2017Danger at DolamM. Taylor FravelThe Indian ExpressCurrent India-China standoff bears a resemblance to the dispute that sparked the 1962 war. But let’s not stretch the analogy. |
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Analysis + OpinionJuly 14, 2017Will Tokyo’s arms exports help or hurt US interests in Asia?Eric Heginbotham and Richard Samuels The Cipher BriefJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s current political problems obscure the striking speed with which he successfully tackled thorny and long-standing security policy problems, including the lifting of the country’s arms export ban.
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In the NewsJuly 10, 2017Former head of US counterintelligence on “US-Russian cybersecurity unit”Mary Louise KellyWBUR Morning EditionJoel Brenner, now at MIT, says President Trump's statement that he might partner with Putin on cyber issues is a reversal of decades of well-founded American suspicion of Russia. |
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In the NewsJuly 9, 2017Trump's cyber tweets cause dismay, confusionCorey BennettPoliticoThe attempt at cooperation itself could result in the US exposing even more secrets to a country that has already stolen so many, cautioned former Obama administration official David Edelman, director of the new MIT Project on Technology, the Economy, and National Security. |
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In the NewsJuly 7, 2017Justin Steil on the Trump administration travel banMichelle NhuchMIT NewsRegardless of the Supreme Court’s ultimate conclusion about the legality of the current executive order, its mean-spiritedness, short-sightedness, and damage it has done, and will continue to do, are already evident. |