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	In the News April 5, 2022 US, UK and Australia announce expanded cooperation on hypersonics Ellen Nakashima and Cate Cadell The Washington Post Quoted: “It demonstrates in no uncertain terms that AUKUS is as much about advanced capabilities, as it is about submarines,” said M Taylor Fravel, director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “In fact, cooperation in these advanced capabilities are going to be more important in the short to medium term.”
	In the News April 5, 2022 What Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means for the world Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has global implications. A panel of MIT foreign policy experts convened on Monday to examine those reverberations—on European domestic politics, the refugee crisis, great-power relations, and nuclear security.
	In the News April 4, 2022 Street-fighting insurgency gives Ukrainians a slight edge James A WarrenDaily Beast Quoted: Barry Posen, a renowned strategic studies scholar at MIT, gives this granular picture of the grim tactical realities of fighting in cities today: “Buildings provide high levels of protection and concealment for infantry soldiers. Multi-storied buildings, with basements, permit defenders to maneuver in a third dimension. Modern cities also have elaborate sewer systems, and often underground tunnels for transit systems. Thus, defenders may maneuver laterally, entirely out of sight of the attacker...”
	In the News April 3, 2022 Cold War 2.0 has already begun — and it's going to be even scarier than the first one Mattathias SchwartzBusiness Insider Quoted: Richard Samuels says the nuclear logic in a multipolar world means that more countries may feel they need nukes of their own. Abe Shinzo, the former prime minister of Japan, recently suggested that Tokyo consider nuclear sharing with the US, modeled on NATO arrangements. "Cold War 2.0 is likely to become a more-proliferated world," Samuels told me. "Some countries, referred to as 'latent nuclear powers,' are close to getting their own nuclear capability. But the view that having nuclear weapons makes for a stable world assumes rationality. Right now, we're watching a person some call crazy threaten the use of nuclear weapons. No wonder insecurity is soaring."
	In the News April 3, 2022 US defense contractors see longer term benefits from war in Ukraine AFP Quoted: Eric Heginbotham, a researcher at the MIT Center for International Studies, said that for Western governments -- as has been the case for years in Asia -- “there will be much less appetite for decreases” in military spending...“Countries are going to be looking to increase interoperability with the United States, which is really sort of the central pillar in NATO,” said Heginbotham.
	Analysis + Opinion April 1, 2022 Why Putin went straight for the nuclear threat Steven Simon and Jonathan StevensonNew York Times Mr. Putin has presented strategists with a situation they haven’t really confronted: a rogue actor employing the threat of nuclear weapons for conquest rather than regime survival—the latter being a primary reason for countries like Iran, North Korea and Pakistan to build or deploy nuclear weapons.
	News Release March 29, 2022 Nuclear security expert Vipin Narang tapped for defense policy post News ReleaseCenter for International Studies The Center for International Studies is pleased to announce that Vipin Narang, professor in the Department of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program, was sworn in as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy on Monday, March 28, 2022.
	Analysis + Opinion March 29, 2022 Four EU countries expel dozens of Russian diplomats suspected of espionage. Ada PetriczkoNew York Times The authorities of Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland and the Czech Republic announced on Tuesday that they were expelling a total of 43 Russian envoys, in what the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs said was a coordinated security effort to counter Russian espionage.
	Analysis + Opinion March 28, 2022 A major Ukrainian internet provider reports a cyberattack. Ada PetriczkoThe New York Times Here’s what happened on day 33 of the war in Ukraine: President Biden said he was expressing his ‘moral outrage,’ not a policy change, when he said the Russian strongman should not be in power. Despite talk of Russia targeting the east of Ukraine, action on several battlefronts suggested a more dynamic and volatile situation.
	In the News March 25, 2022 After Biden's warning, how might Russian cyberattacks play out in the US? Hiawatha BrayBoston Globe Joel Brenner, senior research fellow at CIS and former head of counterintelligence for the US director of national intelligence, said that US cyber spies have penetrated Russian hacker networks, and often have a fair idea of what they're up to.