A team of student and staff researchers at the Middlebury Institute’s Center for Nonproliferation Studies is again at the forefront of global security issues.
Through satellite imagery, the open source intelligence (OSINT) group identified a likely site for launching spy balloons on China’s Hainan Island off its southern coast. Rolling Stone interviewed graduate research assistant Sam Lair, a 2024 nonproliferation and terrorism studies (NPTS) candidate, and researcher Eli Hayes. The team also included Tricia White MANPTS ’23, and Michael Duitsman MANPTS ’15, a research associate.
Read the full article at Rolling Stone.
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
The Economist recently explored how open-source intelligence (OSINT) can challenge governments’ monopolies on information, with insight from Middlebury Institute professor Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The article is behind a paywall but you can watch a video interview we conducted with Jeffrey Lewis on OSINT.
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