Dr. Jeffrey Lewis and his team at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies were able to use Google Maps to track the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In an interview on NPR’s All Things Considered, Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Professor Dr. Jeffrey Lewis discusses the work he and his team carried out to track the beginning of the invasion, and the speed and scale of public information accessible in the Ukraine war. This raises larger questions about the accuracy of online posts depicting the war.
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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.
Sarah Bidgood MANPTS ’16, director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, recently penned a Foreign Policy article about the implications of the war in Ukraine on nuclear arms control.
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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