OEF in the Media

The combination of the two military exercises was described on Twitter by Melissa Hanham, deputy director of the Open Nuclear Network in Vienna, as “one of North Korea’s larger scale drills to date.”

Ecotourism could also play a part. “Responsible dolphin watching expeditions can provide alternative livelihoods for local communities and promote conservation,” says Nelly Isigi Kadagi, a joint postdoctoral fellow at the University of Denver in Colorado, and the US nonprofit One Earth Future.

North Korea’s recent missile launch tests have nuclear weapons experts around the world on watch and weighing in on the tension unfolding across the Korean Peninsula.

Based on the limited information available, the projectiles appear to be the KN-24 - a solid-fuel, short-range ballistic missile - or a multiple rocket launch system, said Melissa Hanham, a weapons expert and Deputy Director of Open Nuclear Network.

ONN was featured in The Conversation.

In that report, lead author Colleen Devlin breaks Somalia’s recent past into three distinct periods: from 1998 to 2000, conflict between domestic and foreign fishers soared; from 2002 to 2010, Somali pirates took control of the water, driving back foreign vessels; and from 2014 to 2015, piracy calme...

For local communities already struggling with pollution and climate change, illegal industrial fishing “is an additional stressor that depletes fisheries resources,” says Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, a research consultant for Colorado-based One Earth Future who was not involved in the study.

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Our Secure Future highlighted in Just Security oped by Ambassador Donald Steinberg

“If you launch one or many of these at South Korea, you have between seconds and minutes to decide if this is a conventional attack, a nuclear attack or some other WMD payload,” said Melissa Hanham, deputy director of the Open Nuclear Network, a weapons expert specializing in the analysis of satelli...

Melissa Hanham, a nuclear and open-source intelligence expert at the One Earth Future Foundation, said that while satellites are more capable than ever before, all space sensors could instead fly closer to land on aerial platforms, so planes offer higher-quality images.

"I believe U.S. President Donald Trump and [North Korean] Chairman Kim Jong Un share the need for a win on this," said Laura Rockwood, who worked for the IAEA for 28 years in several high-level positions and currently serves as the Director of Open Nuclear Network.

"We haven't seen any activity which would indicate that there's an impending test," said Melissa Hanham, an expert on open-source intelligence and director of the Datayo Project at the One Earth Future Foundation.

The weapon was likely a short-range rocket system, or something that was ground tested, said Melissa Hanham, a non-proliferation expert and Director of Open nuclear Network’s Datayo Project.

"These tests help improve their solid-fuel motors and not only is it good for their short-range systems, it would likely make their long-range missiles quicker and more powerful," said Melissa Hanham, a weapons expert and deputy director of the Open Nuclear Network.