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Visiting the 9/11 Memorial and Museum

by Ekaterina Ivashenko | Sep 18, 2017 | WPI Activities

We arrived in New York City on the eve of the 16th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. On that Tuesday morning 16 years ago, the Islamic terrorist group...

9/11 and the politics of memory

by wpiadmin | Sep 17, 2017 | Uncategorized

A couple of days ago, I was standing in a crowded subway carriage in downtown New York with a couple of other WPI fellows, when a man standing on...

Tinder, Nato and the Baltic Sea — Trust me, this unexpected combination makes sense

by Anna Elina Hiltunen | Sep 15, 2017 | Politics

The ongoing verbal dispute between North Korea and the United States is obviously something the media and President Trump have paid a lot of...

Let’s go MAD*, again!

by Kalina Goranova | Sep 15, 2017 | Nuclear Policy and Security

Almost 15,000. This is the number of the nuclear warheads in the world. Russia leads that chart with 7,000, followed by the United States with...

How dangerous is a nuclear-armed North Korea?

by Vanessa Barford | Sep 13, 2017 | Nuclear Policy and Security

North Korea’s most recent nuclear missile test on Sept. 3 – equivalent to a 6.3 magnitude earthquake – and the U.S. Government’s ramped-up rhetoric...