The MIT Security Studies Program was recently gifted with a $45 million grant from the Stanton Foundation in support for establishing the Center for Nuclear Security Policy. With Vipin Narang as the center's very first director, the program aims to focus on nuclear arms security scholarship and as M. Taylor Fravel (director of the Security Studies Program) mentions, "it will help advance policy-relevant research on all key challenges related to nuclear security that bear on this new and potentially more dangerous nuclear era."