For more than a decade, Sarah and Tom Pattison have been stalwart supporters and friends of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Middlebury Institute. They are the major supporters of the Summer Undergraduate Nonproliferation Program.
The Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies hosted a workshop featuring Governor Jerry Brown and current and former U.S. and Russian officials.
A team of researchers at the Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies has located the likely site of North Korea’s covert uranium enrichment plant using open source information.
In June Professor Sharad Joshi briefed a high-level group of British parliamentarians on a wide range of issues around nonproliferation and disarmament.
Associate Professor Moyara Ruehsen has been teaching courses on financial crime—including money laundering, trade-based financial crime, corruption, proliferation financing, and terrorist financing—at the Institute since 1994.
On April 23–May 4, 2018, the Preparatory Committee of states parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) met in Geneva. Leaders, researchers, and students from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) and the Middlebury Institute participated in various ways.
Professor Avner Cohen and Middlebury Institute student and Pickering Fellow Ben McIntosh MANPTS '19 co-authored a provocative opinion piece for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Netanyahu's presentation.
