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In the NewsApril 3, 2019What we are reading today: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor FravelArab NewsActive Defense offers the first systematic look at China’s military strategy from the mid-20th century to today. |
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In the NewsApril 2, 2019To NASA's mission Shakti rebuke, ex-defence research chief's rebuttalPallava Bagla NDTVSpeaking to NDTV, Vipin Narang, a professor of political science and a specialist on strategic studies at MIT in Boston, US added, “Let's be clear there is only a 1 per cent risk of debris hitting the International Space Station, as as the NASA chief says there has been a 44 per cent increase in the risk of the ISS being hit by space junk created by the Indian A-SAT test, even then the risk goes up to a mere 1.44 per cent.” |
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In the NewsApril 1, 2019NATO at 70: Is it time to overhaul one of America's oldest alliances?Meghna ChakrabartiWBURBarry Posen says President Trump might be right — and that it’s time to rethink one of America’s oldest international alliances. |
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In the NewsApril 1, 2019How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-namHannah 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. |
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In the NewsMarch 28, 2019Scholar as detectiveAndrew EricksonAmerican University MagazineA 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). |
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In the NewsMarch 27, 2019India claims successful test of anti-satellite weaponGeoff BrumfielNPRTesting a missile capable of hitting a satellite is “a hop, skip and a jump away from a ballistic missile defense test,” Narang says. |
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In the NewsMarch 27, 2019India’s anti-satellite test wasn’t really about satellitesDaniel OberhausWiredNarang 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. |
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In the NewsMarch 27, 2019Mike Pompeo again refuses to blame Kim Jong Un for Otto Warmbier’s deathNick 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. |
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In the NewsMarch 26, 2019Wargames and the sources of nuclear restraintReid B.C. PaulyHarvard Belfer CenterReid Pauly explains how declassified records of wargames played by US policymakers can reveal why nuclear weapons have not been used since 1945. |
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In the NewsMarch 25, 2019Co-designing assistive technologies in IndiaMadeline SmithMIT NewsMIT students connect with premier Indian institutes, hospitals, and students to collaborate on “humanistic” assistive design. |
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