Iran’s leaders are threatening to breach a 2015 agreement that froze their country’s nuclear program. What is uranium enrichment, and what would it mean for Iran’s ability to build nuclear weapons?
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Something about Netflix’s business model just doesn’t add up – unless you look at the streaming service as a massive data collection company.
Exporting nuclear technology is lucrative, but without strict safeguards, buyers could divert it into bomb programs. Why is Saudi Arabia shopping for nuclear power, and should the US provide it?
Trying to figure out if Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam or other would-be penitents are sincere? A scholar who analyzed dozens of recent apologies offers a user’s guide.
Confidentiality is written into the code of ethics that governs the profession. Will Congress force them to break it to learn the contents of Trump’s private meetings?
The holiday used to be all about trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. No more – and it could something to do with the fact that traditional markers of adulthood have changed.
According to most physicists, there is no safe dose of radiation. So why would the EPA consider saying otherwise? Who stands to gain if the EPA declares low-dose radiation harmless?
The halal food sector largely relies on industrially produced meats and produce. But more and more Muslims are using the Quran to interpret halal to mean food that’s wholesome and humanely raised.
The steep decline in refugee children in US schools will lessen the nation’s ability to produce students who possess the skills of global citizenship, a researcher argues.
Made up almost entirely of West Germans, the roster of Germany’s national soccer team reflects divisions that remain almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Linguistic clues show how people around the world first developed mathematical thought.
The May jobs report showed that US unemployment is at about a 50-year low. That’s not how it feels to many men who’ve never been to college.
Royal weddings have shaped how Americans imagine their own dream weddings. Unfortunately, they don’t come cheap – which might explain why fewer and fewer are tying the knot.
People who’ve gotten nose jobs are also trying to revert to a more natural look.
The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So how did North Korea get them?
The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So how did North Korea get one?
Infectious diseases have plagued Africa for decades. Now, Africa faces the threat of a cancer pandemic – with a shortage of equipment, doctors and money to treat it.
A scholars’ panel looks at the diplomacy, the science and the pragmatism behind the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action signed between Iran and six world powers.
Centrifuges, plutonium, uranium enrichment – what’s the nuclear science behind the deal to curb Iran’s atomic weapons program.
Many refer to advances in television storytelling as novelistic or cinematic, but the medium deserves a term of its own: complex TV.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury
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Director of Research, Academic Development, and Innovation at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury
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Professor of Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
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Professor of Psychology Emerita, Middlebury
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Director of Research for the Center for the Blue Economy, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
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Professor of Classics, Middlebury
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Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Middlebury
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury
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Professor of Anthropology, Middlebury
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Professor of Practice and Director of Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, Middlebury
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, Middlebury
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Middlebury
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Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies, Middlebury
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Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Middlebury
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Professor of American Studies and English, Middlebury
