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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Security Studies Program

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Grants

2019 ( 5 months)
$48,000

The MIT Security Studies Program is a graduate-level research and educational program that integrates technical and political analysis of national and international security problems and has a special focus on nuclear issues. This award comprises research and dissemination activities. It develops guidance to improve the U.S. nuclear policy community’s ability to respond, in the digital space, to events and crises as they emerge.

2014 (3 years 1 month)
$350,000

MIT’s Security Studies Program (SSP) is a graduate-level research and educational program. It integrates technical and political analysis of national and international security problems and has a special focus on nuclear issues. Under this grant, MIT experts will examine the technical, economic, political, and nonproliferation implications of the current state and possible futures of laser enrichment technology.

2014 (1 year 8 months)
$50,000

MIT’s Security Studies Program (SSP) is a graduate-level research and educational program. It integrates technical and political analysis of national and international security problems. Despite the renaissance in scholarship on nuclear affairs, many of the emerging scholars in nuclear studies are isolated, both within their own fields, and unaware of the work in other disciplines and in other countries or in the policy community. SSP seeks support for the Nuclear Studies Research Initiative, which creates a platform for exchange, cross-fertilization, and mentorship for the new generation of scholars.

2013 (2 years 2 months)
$345,000

MIT’s Security Studies Program is a top security studies program in the United States. This project investigates the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) response to financial sanctions, and in particular, the accumulated learning that comes from evading those measures. It examines the unintended consequences of counterproliferation sanctions on the DPRK and identifies vulnerabilities that could be exploited. It aims to generate policy relevant research that can inform government decision making, with the effect of improving DPRK policy and with that, increase the chances of a successful outcome regarding the North’s nuclear program.

2008 (1 year)
$75,000

In support of policy research on federal budget priorities for promoting national and international security (over two years).

2005 (2 years)
$150,000

In support of policy research on federal budget priorities for promoting national and international security (over two years).

2003 (3 years)
$1,100,000

In support of scientific and technical training and research on international security issues at the Technology Group of the MIT Security Studies Program (over three years).

2001 (2 years 6 months)
$707,000

To support a technical working group on reducing nuclear weapons and the technology implications of ballistic missile defenses (over two years).

1999 (2 years 6 months)
$150,000

To support research and public education on the reduction of nuclear weapons and the implications of ballistic missile defenses (over two years).

1999 (2 years)
$150,000

To develop a post-cold-war defense budget (over two years).