To Reflect or Deflect: Assessing Internal Accountability in the U.S. Military
Heidi Urban
Georgetown University
April 29, 2026 12:00PM
April 29, 2026
12:00PM
Security Studies Seminar
The SSP Wednesday Seminar Series runs from 12:00pm to 1:30PM, EST.
All seminars will be in-person and open to the SSP community in the Lucian Pye Conference Room (E40-496), and will also be live-streamed on the SSP YouTube channel. Email Andrew Ortendahl (aortenda@mit.edu) with questions.
Great Expectations: Rising Power and the Elusive Pursuit of Absolute Security
Caleb Pomeroy
University of Toronto
April 22, 2026 12:00PM
April 22, 2026
12:00PM
The Third Nuclear Age: Will Our Luck Finally Run Out?
Alexandra Bell
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
March 18, 2026 12:00PM E40-496
Seminar with Kari Bingen
Kari Bingen
Center for Strategic and International Studies
March 11, 2026 12:00PM E40-496
The Navy We Need: Maritime Dominance in a World of Interlocking Supply Chains
Paul DeLuca
Rand Corporation
March 4, 2026 12:00PM E40-496
Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft
Jon R. Lindsay
Georgia Institute of Technology
February 25, 2026 1:30PM E40-496
New Weapons between Utopia and Apocalypse: An Intellectual History, 1860s–1970s
Elena Kempf
MIT History Department
February 11, 2026 12:00PM E40-496
Promise and Peril: AI Policy in the Biden Administration
Diane Staheli
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
December 3, 2025 12:00PM NE-49-3100, 600 Technology Square, Cambridge
Europe's Master of Equilibrium and the Struggle to Shape European Society
Jeffrey Rathke
Johns Hopkins University
November 19, 2025 12:00PM NE49-3100, 600 Technology Square
Deterring Two Nuclear Peers and the New Consensus
Rebecca Heinrichs
Hudson Institute
November 12, 2025 12:00PM NE49-3100, 600 Technology Square
The Nations in Our Minds: Historical Representations of Countries in Google Books
Rochelle Terman
University of Chicago
October 29, 2025 12:00PM NE49-3100, 600 Technology Square
How Dangerous Are Autonomous Nuclear Systems?
Michael Horowitz
University of Pennsylvania
October 22, 2025 12:00PM NE49-3100, 600 Technology Square
The Making of National Interest
Soyoung Lee
Yale University
October 15, 2025 12:00PM NE49-3100, 600 Technology Square
China's Big Science Bet
James Goodrich
RAND
October 8, 2025 12:00PM NE49-3100, 600 Technology Square
Reflections on Nuclear Policy, 2018-2025
Austin Long
Center for Nuclear Security Policy
September 24, 2025 12:00PM NE49-3100, 600 Technology Square
Global Security Challenges: A View from Down Under
John Blaxland
Australian National University
September 17, 2025 12:00PM NE-49-3100, 600 Technology Square, Cambridge
How Dangerous are Autonomous Nuclear Systems?
Michael Horowitz
University of Pennsylvania
September 5, 2025 1:49PM
September 5, 2025
1:49PM
A Decent, Democratic Regime, a Trujillo Regime, or a Castro Regime: When and Why the United States Promotes Democracy or Dictatorship
Alexander Downes
George Washington University
May 7, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
Dollar Dominance, Deterrence, and Denial
Carla Norrlöf
University of Toronto
April 30, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
Divisions at Home, Divisions Abroad?
How Domestic Conditions Shape Foreign Perceptions of US Nuclear Credibility
Lauren Sukin
MIT
April 16, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
Global Space Infrastructure and US Grand Strategy
Aaron Bateman
George Washington Institute
April 9, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
The Coming Strategic Revolution of Artificial Intelligence:
The US-China Contest and the Sources of Competitive Advantage
Michael Mazarr
Rand Corporation
April 2, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
To Dare Mighty Things: US Defense Strategy Since the Revolution
Michael O'Hanlon
Brookings Institution
March 19, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496