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“I think the U.S. failure to resolve the issue of North Korea’s nuclear challenge is having a corrosive effect, along with a lot of other things, on the core idea that the U.S. is the indispensable partner for Seoul and Tokyo,” Jeffrey Lewis, Middlebury Institute professor and arms control expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation tells TIME Magazine.
Middlebury Institute professor and Director of the Center for Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) Jason Blazakis recently analyzed the implications of designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations in an op-ed for Defense One, calling it a “bad old idea”. “While adding the cartels to the FTO list makes for a good sound bite and will play well within the American electorate, a closer look at the implications paints a different picture.” said Blazakis.
Using virtual reality (VR) to show the possible impact of sea level rise and climate change on specific communities - using data to visually demonstrate scenarios and solutions - the work of Middlebury Institute Adjunct Faculty and Center for the Blue Economy Fellow Juliano Calil was featured on Morning Edition on NPR.
“We are getting to a point of no return” in the US-Turkey relationship, Deputy Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) Jessica Varnum tells Peter Tilden of KABC Radio, discussing the ramifications of of US withdrawal from Syria and Ankara’s tightening ties to Moscow. She spoke with Tilden, drawing on her deep expertise on Turkey and the region in October and in November during President Erdogan’s White House visit.
In the absence of sanctions relief (or any progress at all on transforming US relations). North Korea “is going gangbusters” on its missile program, Professor Jeffrey Lewis, director of the CNS East Asia Nonproliferation Program tells NPR, regarding reports on North Korea’s imminent—and large—military aircraft show.
If Iran restarts enrichment at Fordow, it will be “relatively harder to reverse [course], since once nuclear material is fed into a centrifuge you cant do anything else with it other than enrichment,” Chen Kane, director of the CNS Middle East Nonproliferation program tells The Independent.
Sarah Bidgood MANPTS ‘16, director of the CNS Eurasia Nonproliferation Program spoke to NBC Nightly News about the importance of Planet Labs satellite imagery. “Being able to track granular changes on the ground is so important in producing nuanced analyses, especially in the nonproliferation space.”
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Research Associate Michael Duitsman MANPTS ‘15 explains the capability of the sub-launched Bulava missile Russia tested this week (from near the site of the failed Skyfall test) to BusinessInsider with help from 3D models.
How powerful are the U.S. nuclear weapons in Turkey? How secure are they? Why are they there? And do they have “Kiss it Khrushchev” written on them? Middlebury Institute Professor Jeffrey Lewis, director the CNS East Asia Nonproliferation Program discusses all this—and what to do about them—on CBC Radio One.
| by Miles Pomper
Miles Pomper, senior fellow at the Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies breaks down the complex issue of U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in Turkey for The Conversation.
