2024 Taiwan Nuclear Game

The Lab's 2024 Taiwan nuclear game, conducted with CSIS, examined nuclear dynamics in a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. What creates the greatest pressure for nuclear weapons use in such a conflict? What happens if nuclear weapons are used? To answer these questions, the MIT-CSIS team modifies its existing Taiwan conventional invasion wargame to include nuclear weapons. Two of the 15 iterations were run at Endicott House, with 20 experts taking the role of U.S., Chinese, and Japanese military commands.

The 2024 game report is available here.

2023 US-China Economic Statecraft Game

In June 2023, the MIT Security Studies Program Wargaming Lab conducted a simulation in which the United States used economic statecraft tools to respond to a political-military crisis over Taiwan. Thirty experts convened to play nearly a dozen countries over a two-day wargame.

The game report is available here.