Enabled by a significant gift, MIT’s Security Studies Program launches the Center for Nuclear Security Policy
With $45 million in support from the Stanton Foundation, the program will expand its longstanding leadership in a critical area of global security.
The Stanton Foundation has given MIT’s Security Studies Program a $45 million gift to establish the Center for Nuclear Security Policy, which will focus on nuclear arms security scholarship. “We are on the cusp of a new and more dangerous nuclear age, with the modernization and expansion of nuclear arsenals, the collapse of arms control agreements, continued proliferation challenges, and the impact of new and emerging technologies on how states will manage their arsenals,” says M. Taylor Fravel (left), director of the Security Studies Program and the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor in MIT's Department of Political Science. Vipin Narang (right), the Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science at MIT, will serve as the center’s first director.
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