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Dave Schmerler MANPTS ‘15, senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies using satellite images from Planet Labs, shares his analysis that suggests North Korea may be preparing to deploy a ballistic missile-capable submarine with NHK, Japan’s National Broadcasting Organization.
The Associated Press quoted Fabian Hinz, a researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in widely published article about an attack on Saudi oil production sites and suspicions about involvement from Iran. “Previous Houthi drone strikes against oil facilities tended to result in quite limited damage which could be an indication that a different weapons system was used this time.”
“The attack has been quite surprising” for the amount of damage it caused, said Fabian Hinz, an arms researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey to the Wall Street Journal about coordinated strikes on the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry on September 14th, 2019. “We have seen quite a few drone and missile attacks against Saudi infrastructure, but in most cases the actual damage caused has been quite minimal,” said Mr. Hinz.
“Russia is committed to a massive investment in new systems like this to defeat U.S. missile defenses. We are stumbling toward an arms race,” Jeffrey Lewis, adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute and nuclear weapons expert at the Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
International Environmental Policy Professor Jason Scorse, director of the Middlebury Institute’s Center for the Blue Economy, writes in The Conversation that conservative governments’ support for reducing carbon emissions acts as an economic stimulator.
“This is the proverbial wicked problem,” remarks Middlebury Institute Adjunct Professor and Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Export Control Nonproliferation Program Robert Shaw, in Scientific American. The article delves into new research by a multi-institutional research group on the WMD proliferation challenges presented by 3D printing led by Shaw, and his colleagues Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, and Miles Pomper.
“Going by what they’ve said so far, they’re not too concerned about effects on talks with the U.S.,” said Joshua Pollack, an expert at the Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies told Reuters. “Trump has given them a pass on short-range missiles,” he said. “Instead, they have indicated their displeasure with Seoul.”
“We’re trying to step into this void because most of the climate plans are really focused on the big manufacturing and industrial emitters and the big terrestrial sources of pollution,” said Jason Scorse, director of the Center for the Blue Economy “an early crafter of the Blue New Deal approach”, tells The Hill.
Russian nuclear powered missile tests don’t yet indicate a serious danger to locals, Dr. Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress adjunct professor and scientist-in-residence at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) told VICE News. But there’s not enough data yet to know what the levels are like on the barges themselves.
“Behind every language is a mentality,” The Associated Press featured Conference Interpretation alumnus Alexandre Ponomarev MACI ‘00, chief interpreter at the Tokyo Olympics next year.“I believe in acquiring a language you also acquire a certain mentality.”
