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<div align="center"><font size="5"
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Vipin Narang will address the virtual <i>ICAS</i>
Fall Symposium <i>Special </i>2024 with a
particular emphasis on "The Korean Peninsula Issues
and US National Security" on December 16, 2024,
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<font face="Arial,sans-serif">Vipin Narang is the
Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and
Political Science and member of the Security Studies
Program at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. From March 2022 through August 2024,
Vipin served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense and then Acting Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Space Policy, a portfolio with oversight
over the U.S. Department of Defense’s strategic
capabilities, including nuclear, space, missile
defense, and cyber policy. For his service, Vipin
was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for
Distinguished Public Service. </font></font><font
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<font size="5"><font face="Arial,sans-serif">His first
book<span> </span><em
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Strategy in the Modern Era</em><span> </span>(Princeton
University Press, 2014) on the deterrence strategies
of regional nuclear powers won the 2015 ISA
International Security Studies Section Best Book
Award. Vipin's second book<span> </span><a
href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691172620/seeking-the-bomb"
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the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation</em></a><span> </span>was
published with Princeton University Press in 2022.
His work has appeared in a variety of outlets
including<span> </span><em
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Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, The
Washington Quarterly, International Organization,
Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post,<span> </span></em>and<em
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New York Times.</em><span> </span>Vipin was the
recipient of the 2020 ISSS Emerging Scholar Award
from the International Studies Association awarded
to the scholar who “had made the most significant
contribution to the field of security studies.”</font><br
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<font face="Arial,sans-serif">Professor Narang
received his PhD from the Department of Government,
Harvard University in 2010. He holds a BS and MS in
chemical engineering with distinction from Stanford
University and an MPhil with Distinction in
international relations from Balliol College, Oxford
University, where he studied on a Marshall
Scholarship. Vipin has been a fellow at Harvard
University’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, a
predoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs, and a
Stanton junior faculty fellow at Stanford
University’s Center for International Security and
Cooperation. His research interests include nuclear
proliferation and strategy, North Korea's nuclear
weapons, South Asian security, and general security
studies.</font></font>
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