The latest issue of @intsecurity.bsky.social features a paper by Eli Sanchez, former Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, “Seeing Through ‘Transparent Oceans’: Emerging Technology, Submarine Vulnerability, and the Future of MAD”. 🔖Bookmark now, 📖read later: https://bit.ly/4x0vt8L

MIT’s Wargaming Lab is seeking a Program Coordinator to provide operational and administrative support. Job description and application: https://ssp.news/wargames-job

And that’s a wrap on the 2026 Summer Wargaming Institute! Thank you, to all of our presenters and participants who came from near and afar, thanks to our hosts at the MIT Endicott House, and a very special thanks to Elena Capuzzo for putting this event together!

Wargaming Lab Co-director Erik Lin-Greenberg scores another award for his latest book “The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft”: the American Political Science Association Foreign Policy Section 2026 Best Book Award. Congratulations, Professor Lin-Greenberg! @apsa.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that SSP Research Affiliate Fiona Cunningham has been awarded the 2026 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for her book “Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security”. 🏆Congratulations, Fiona! 📘 @fiona-cunningham.bsky.social

On June 6, the Security Studies Program celebrated its 50th anniversary with a full day of festivities, friendship, and food. Alumni from across the country and around the globe joined us at the MIT Media Lab to catch up with colleagues and share memories of what makes SSP so special.

SSP Senior Research Associate Jim Walsh speaks to @wbur.org about tensions around the U.S.-Iran ceasefire. 🎧 https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/06/11/iran-us-strikes-ceasefire

We are pleased to announced that SSP Affiliate Phil Haun’s recent book, “Tactical Airpower and the Vietnam War”, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History by the Royal United Services Institute (@rusi.bsky.social). Congratulations, Phil Haun!

SSP Senior Fellow Charles Glaser addresses US-China security concerns at a recent talk for @fsi.stanford.edu. Full talk: https://youtu.be/GzGd1w92U1w?si=AiDK26EYAtmD12LN

Congratulations to SSP’s PhD graduates! We are honored to celebrate the hard-earned achievements of doctors Nicholas Blanchette, Wenyan Deng, Suzanne Freeman, Eleanor Freund, Eyal Hanfling, Wright Smith, Raymond Wang, and Diana Zhu.

A group of bipartisan experts, including faculty member Vipin Narang, offer basic guideposts for the Pentagon to take into account as it proceeds with its close hold mini review of U.S. nuclear strategy in a new article in Real Clear Defense. www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...

On April 15, SSP had the honor of presenting former Commander, US Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service General Timothy D. Haugh with the General James Doolittle Award. Learn more about the Doolittle Award: https://bit.ly/4eV4bdL

SSP Senior Fellow Charles Glaser speaks to Amherst College Professor Eleonora Mattiacci about his latest book “Retrench, Defend, Compete: Securing America’s Future Against a Rising China”. 🔖Bookmark now, 🎧listen later via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3R8egtU

In a new paper, @mbudjeryn.bsky.social examines the global nuclear order after the Cold War, specifically asking why “did only Russia emerge as the only possessor of Soviet nuclear weapons in the post-Soviet space?” Read the full article via Journal of Strategic Studies: https://bit.ly/4dkt3Jr

SSP Director @fravel.bsky.social speaks with @npr.org about China’s expanding nuclear program. “What [China] worried about was that the U.S. was developing what's known as conventional long-range strike weapons that could be used to attack China's nuclear forces,” Fravel says.

Thank you, Heidi Urben, for your important discussion on assessing internal accountability in the US military during this week’s Wednesday Seminar. Seminars will return in the fall. Meanwhile, catch up on the conversation with our archived seminars: https://bit.ly/4dl4yvN @heidiurben.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow for the final Wednesday Seminar of the semester, in which @heidiurben.bsky.social will discuss internal accountability in the US military. 📡Bookmark the livestream* https://youtube.com/live/yegx7ekZT8A?feature=share *this livestream will not be recorded

Congratulations to the Security Studies Program Phd students Kathryn Dura, Christine Liu, and Tyler Sagerstrom on receiving MIT Center for International Studies PhD Student Research Grants! Learn more about their grants and research topics: cis.mit.edu/news/cis-awa...

40 years after the Chornobyl disaster, Center for Nuclear Security Policy Senior Researcher @mbudjeryn.bsky.social reflects on the impact of peaceful and weaponized nuclear energy in Ukraine’s history in “Atoms for Peace and Atoms for War”. Via Baltic Worlds balticworlds.com/atoms-for-pe...

Thank you, Joshua Kertzer, for your lively discussion “Advisers in Foreign Policy” during this week’s Wednesday Seminar.
There are only two seminars left in the semester! @jkertzer.bsky.social

In the penultimate Wednesday Seminar of the semester, Caleb Pomeroy will discuss how rising power increases leaders' expectations of security. 🗓️4/22 at noon ET 📍MIT community can join in person at E40-496 📡Bookmark the livestream https://youtube.com/live/jrqCTSDsVTQ?feature=share

🥗Spend your lunchtime with us! In tomorrow’s Wednesday Seminar, @jkertzer.bsky.social explores the role of advisers in foreign policy, highlighting the systematically different counsel offered by hawkish and dovish advisers. Livestreaming: https://bit.ly/4dXZaAH *This talk will not be recorded.

Thank you, Rachel Myrick, for your informative discussion “Polarization and International Politics” at last week’s Wednesday Seminar. And special thanks to Caitlin Talmadge for guest hosting. Only three more seminars remaining for the semester! @rachelmyrick.bsky.social @proftalmadge.bsky.social

Mariana Budjeryn’s 2022 book, “Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine”, is now available in a Polish translation. @mbudjeryn.bsky.social, a senior researcher at the MIT’s Center for Nuclear Security Policy, examines the nuclear legacy...

Congratulations to SSP Affiliate Francis Gavin for receiving the 2026 Lionel Gelber Prize for his book “Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy”!

🥪Spend your lunchtime with us! In tomorrow’s Wednesday Seminar, Rachel Myrick will discuss her research, arguing that polarization reshapes the nature of constraints on democratic leaders. Livestream*: https://bit.ly/4tbWL9A *This livestream will not be recorded. @rachelmyrick.bsky.social

n our upcoming Wednesday Seminar, @rachelmyrick.bsky.social will discuss her research, arguing that polarization reshapes the nature of constraints on democratic leaders, which in turn erodes the advantages democracies have in foreign affairs. Learn more: ssp.mit.edu/events/2026/...

Thank you, Alexandra Bell, president and CEO of @thebulletin.org, for your lively discussion on “The Third Nuclear Age” at last week’s Wednesday Seminar. 📼ICYMI catch up with the conversation with the recorded stream: https://youtube.com/live/ohOSv5unJiE?feature=share

@mbudjeryn.bsky.social, CNSP Senior Researcher, joins a panel of experts to discuss Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant’s status and what support Ukraine needs to maintain and secure its nuclear sites. Watch the Helsinki Commission briefing: https://bit.ly/4bGHmag

"Choosing to fight can lead to all the normal costs of war—death, destruction, and a shift in resources from butter to guns—but not bring the expected benefits in terms of enhanced reputation for resolve,” writes @joshschwartz.bsky.social, SSP visiting scholar. Read more: https://bit.ly/3NkrsdJ