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Melissa Hanham

A research associate, then senior research associate, at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (2014–2018), and director of Datayo in 2020. On the show: modeling North Korean missiles, analyzing military imagery, the submarine-launched ballistic missile program, U.S./DPRK diplomacy after the Singapore Summit, and the Datayo project.

4 episodes · 2014–2020

  1. Saving the World with Datayo

    Melissa Hanham, director of Datayo and Deputy Director of the Open Nuclear Network, joins Jeffrey and Scott to talk about Datayo, a…

    45 min

  2. KCN-eh? June’s other North Korea Developments

    A Canadian reviews the last month’s news with two special guests. Andrea talks to CNS Senior Research Associate Melissa Hanham and FAS Adjunct…

    54 min

  3. North Korea’s Submarine Launched Missile

    In May, North Korea released pictures of the Kim Jong Un watching the launch of what appears to be a submarine-launched ballistic…

    33 min

  4. Monitoring Missile Proliferation with Open Source Tools

    How does Jeffrey find time to podcast? He has super talented staff to do the real work! Jeffrey talks with Melissa Hanham…

    28 min

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Melissa Hanham

Writing on ACW 2015–2017

Melissa Hanham is a Senior Research Associate at the James Martin Center of Nonproliferation Studies and the META Lab of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

Her regional interests include the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, North Korean WMD procurement and proliferation networks, China’s nuclear posture, and East Asian security. She also studies Chinese, South Korean, and Japanese nuclear exports, as well as East and Southeast Asian export control systems.

Melissa also investigates new techniques in open source geospatial analysis, incorporating imagery and other remote sensing data, large data sets, social media, 3D modeling, and GIS mapping.

She teaches “Open Source Analysis for Nonproliferation Studies” at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

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