Quoted

“If our opening bid is denuclearization, that just seems like a Western fantasy at this point.”

—Vipin Narang

October 2, 2017 The New York Times

“Short of war or the country’s collapse...There’s nothing to stop this program from becoming a monster.”

—Vipin Narang

September 27, 2017 The New York Times

“We have no idea what we’re risking at this point.”

—Vipin Narang

September 19, 2017 The Wall Street Journal

“If you didn’t have the ability to produce so many missiles, then you might be a little more reluctant to test.”

—Vipin Narang

September 6, 2017 The Atlantic

“Did North Korea actually succeed in testing a true staged thermonuclear device on September 3?”

—Vipin Narang and Ankit Panda

September 6, 2017 Popular Science

“Saying that this nuclear program has not augmented or improved North Korea’s ability to deter particular actions...is simply denying reality and putting our head in the sand”

—Vipin Narang

September 6, 2017 The New York Times

Petersen’s research cited in Vox News

September 5, 2017 Vox News

“It will be critical to watch how China responds to other drilling activities.”

—M. Taylor Fravel

September 5, 2017 Bloomberg News

Vipin Narang: The nuclear device that North Korea tested called a “city buster”

September 3, 2017 The Washington Post

“I had thought that maybe Kim hadn’t tested number six for the past several months because that was a red line for China...But clearly he decided to blow past it.”

—Vipin Narang

September 3, 2017 Bloomberg News

“The problems in Durham and elsewhere raise questions about the auditing of e-poll books and security of small election vendors.”

—Charles Stewart III

September 1, 2017 The New York Times

“They’re getting units ready to fire a missile without being destroyed”

—Vipin Narang

August 31, 2017 The Washington Post

“The whole reason they developed the ICBM was to deter American nuclear retaliation”

Vipin Narang

August 29, 2017 The New York Times

“Beijing has compromised more frequently than it has used force”

—M. Taylor Fravel

August 24, 2017 Cato Institute

“Anyone who thinks this shift in Pakistan strategy will be easy to implement, remember: Pakistan negotiates with a gun to its own head.”

—Vipin Narang

August 22, 2017 The LA Times

“If the US does anything that he sees as provocative, he has reviewed the plan and now stands poised to execute it.”

—Vipin Narang

August 15, 2017 The Guardian

“Every time we have underestimated them they have shown us to be wrong”

—Vipin Narang

July 29, 2017 The Financial Times

“This is not what Mr. Abe had in mind when he talked about empowering women as one of his major campaign themes.”

—Richard Samuels

July 28, 2017 The New York Times

Research by M. Taylor Fravel cited in Bloomberg Businessweek

July 24, 2017

China and India, two nuclear-armed powers with a combined population of 2.7 billion, have been in an “eyeball-to-eyeball” military stand-off over territory in Bhutan, a kingdom in a remote area of the Himalayas, since mid-June. The flare-up, one of the most serious since China won a border war in 1962, comes as the two rising powers jostle for regional influence.

Vipin Narang’s work is cited in the National Interest

July 21, 2017 The National Interest

With the world’s attention firmly fixated on North Korea, the greatest possibility of nuclear war is in fact on the other side of Asia.

Op-Ed by Vipin Narang cited in The New York Times

July 7, 2017 The New York Times

North Korea’s once-unthinkable nuclear and missile capabilities are, as long as the country wants, here to stay. With each North Korean nuclear or missile test, American officials go through a ritual that appears increasingly at odds with reality.

“What’s the balance between privacy and transparency in running elections?”

—Charles Stewart III

July 6, 2017 HuffPost

“I’ve been studying America’s election administration since 2000, and I’ve rarely seen a firestorm like this”

—Charles Stewart III

July 5, 2017 The Nation