Celebrating CNS at 30
| by Rhianna Kreger
A milestone anniversary for the Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), the nation’s largest NGO dedicated to WMD nonproliferation education and training.
Institute Experts Provide Analysis on Iranian Attacks on U.S. Bases in Iraq
The new decade has brought increased tensions in the Middle East, and with it, high media demand for experts at the Middlebury Institute’s (CNS).
Within hours of Iran retaliating for the U.S. assassination of Iranian Major General Soleimani by firing ballistic missiles at U.S. bases in Iraq, Professor Jeffrey Lewis, director of the CNS East Asia Nonproliferation Program and CNS Senior Research Associate MANPTS ’15 had processed and analyzed satellite images from Planet Labs showing the damage. The following days, they and other CNS experts such as , , MANPTS ’15, , , and MANPTS ’18, shared their expertise and observations with national and international media; on the attacks, the future of the Iranian nuclear deal, and the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane shortly after take-off from Tehran airport.
Following are links to some of the media coverage in recent days:
January 10, 2020: “” Fabian Hinz in Newsweek
January 10, 2020: “” Michael Duitsman in the Washington Post
January 9, 2020: “,” Dave Schmerler in Radio Farda
January 9, 2020: “,” Joshua Pollack in Voice of America
January 9, 2020: “,” Michael Duitsman in Reuters
January 9, 2020: “,” Fabian Hinz on CBS 2 News
January 9, 2020: “,” Joshua Pollack and Jeffrey Lewis in Politifact
January 9, 2020: “,” Fabian Hinz in USA Today
January 9, 2020: “,” Margaret Croy in NHK World
January 9, 2020: “,” Jeffrey Lewis in Eurasia Review
January 8, 2020: “,” Jeffrey Lewis and Dave Schmerler in the New York Times
January 8, 2020: “,” Fabian Hinz and Jeffrey Lewis in Talking Points Memo
January 8, 2020: “,” Dave Schmerler and Fabian Hinz on NPR
January 7, 2020: “,” Jeffrey Lewis in the National Interest
January 7, 2020: “,” Jeffrey Lewis in Business Insider
January 7, 2020: “,” Miles Pomper in Buzzfeed News
January 7, 2020: “,” Nikolai Sokov in Sputnik News
January 7, 2020: “,” Fabian Hinz in the Washington Post
January 6, 2020: “,” Miles Pomper in Wired
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