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Long a leading source of timely academic analysis and commentary on topics such as North Korea’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, the Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) appeared to reach a new level of global notoriety over the last few weeks, with attendant consequences.

The breadth of media coverage quoting CNS experts in connection with last week’s missile test by the North Korean regime speaks for itself:

• - Business Insider, 9/8/16
• - New York magazine, 9/8/16
• – CNBC with Reuters, 9/9/16
• Will North Korea’s next missile test have a nuclear warhead? – CNN, 9/9/16
• - Daily Mail (UK) via Reuters, 9/9/16
• – Korea Herald, 9/9/16
• - NBC News, 9/9/16
• - South China Morning Post, 9/9/16
• – Vox, 9/9/16
• - Washington Post, 9/9/16
• - Washington Post, 9/9/16
• - CBC Radio (Canada), 9/12/16
• – Salon, 9/12/16
• - VICE, 9/13/16
• - BBC, 9/14/16

The Business Insider, CNN, Reuters and Washington Post stories were reprinted in numerous other outlets nationally and internationally.

Even as the phones began to ring, a new site created by CNS to promote crowdsourcing of nuclear verification intelligence from publicly available satellite imagery was hobbled by a concerted denial of service, or DoS, cyber-attack. CNS Senior Research Associate Melissa Hanham called the timing of the attack “suspicious” in a WIRED piece whose author noted: “.”

CNS staff are currently working to relaunch the site.