Drawing on lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis, Sarah Bidgood MANPTS ’16, director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, discusses the real possibility of a new nuclear arms race.
In Foreign Policy, Bidgood writes about how the war in Ukraine could upend the current nuclear arms control framework. Leaders in Washington and the West must find a way to respond to Russia’s actions without moving the world closer to nuclear exchange.
MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at CNS
Professor Jason Blazakis, director of the Middlebury Institute’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, wrote an Op-Ed for the Los Angeles Times and The Mercury News, in addition to providing an interview for MSNBC, about the option of adding Russia to the U.S. government’s state sponsors of terrorism list.
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Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies professor Dr. Jeffrey Lewis and a team of students noticed the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Google Maps hours before it was officially announced, the Washington Post reports.
In a San Francisco Chronicle opinion article, Jason Scorse, director of the Institute’s Center for the Blue Economy and David Helvarg, executive director of Blue Frontier, argue that sanctioning Russia’s oil and natural gas exports is crucial to the U.S. response to the crisis in Ukraine.
