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Jeffrey Lewis

With Technology, These Researchers Are Figuring Out North Korea’s Nuclear Secrets

Did North Korea just test another missile engine? Satellite images suggest it did.

North Korea boasts about its nuclear weapons program by releasing photos and videos of its missiles. But in them are tiny clues to their true capability. A team of US analysts, working outside the government, shows how they decode these images to determine when North Korea is bluffing—and when it is showing true power.

Wall Street Journal Video Spotlights CNS “Decoders”

Cutting-edge intelligence tools aren’t just for governments anymore.

William C. Potter

Bill Potter’s Birthday Greetings to Roland Mikhailovich Timerbaev

VIDEO: CNS Director William Potter offers birthday greetings.

: CIF students and teacher with Dr. Lassina Zerbo and other CTBTO Youth members at the “Advocacy Tombola” session. Photo credit: CTBTO.

Critical Issues Forum at the CTBTO Science and Technology Conference in Vienna

Students engaged with policy experts, high-ranking officials, and science and technical experts in nuclear-test monitoring.

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MIIS Alumna Presides Over Negotiation of Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

MIIS alumna Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez facilitated the adoption of a treaty banning nuclear weapons.

CNS Summer Nonproliferation Program Attracts Top-Level Undergraduates

Top-level undergraduate interns work and study at CNS this summer, focusing on current challenges to the nonproliferation regime.

CNS Spring 2017 Visiting Fellows Ms. Urvashi Rathore and Mr. Regis Bakyono.

CNS Trains Visiting Fellows from Burkina Faso and India

Fellows participated in an intensive, semester-long nonproliferation training program.

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CTBTO Youth Group Presentation Well-Received at NPT PrepCom

On May 4th, Monterey-based CTBTO Youth Group members presented their research on elevating the profile of the CTBT in the NPT context.

CIF student participants with Dr. Lassina Zerbo, the Executive Secretary of the CTBTO

CTBTO’s Dr. Lassina Zerbo Spoke at CIF Spring Student Conference in Nagasaki

US, Russian and Japanese high school students met to discuss the nuclear test ban treaty, a world free of nuclear weapons, and youth education.

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Diplomats Gather in Annecy for Diplomatic Workshop on Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

On March 10-11, 2017 CNS hosted its traditional two-day diplomatic workshop in Annecy, France on the NPT.