New Tools & Emerging Technologies

Trump Tweet

How Trump Could Trigger Armageddon with a Tweet

Is Trump’s use of Twitter a presidential statement or just a tweet?

Revealed: North Korea Is Secretly Selling Face Scanning Tech (src: Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

Revealed: North Korea Is Secretly Selling Face Scanning Tech

The Daily Beast published an exclusive look at a new CNS report exposing North Korean subterfuge.

OP#36: The Shadow Sector: North Korea’s Information Technology Networks

OP#36: The Shadow Sector: North Korea’s Information Technology Networks

North Korea’s global IT network undermines sanctions and poses grave cyber-security threats.

Left to right: Dave Schmerler, Jeffrey Lewis, and Melissa Hanham

True Detectives

On California’s magnificent Central Coast, a group of North Korea experts track Pyongyang’s every nuclear move. But—if we’re listening—the story they’re telling us is also about ourselves.

Webinar Series: Snooping on North Korea from Monterey

VIDEO: See how CNS experts use language, satellite photos, and 3D models to monitor North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs.

Richard Engel of NBC News interviews Jeffrey Lewis in Monterey.

NBC News Features Innovative Work of CNS Researchers

“Middlebury isn’t a secret department of the CIA, the NSA, – it is part of a liberal arts college. There are no spies here, just a team of researchers working what is known as open source intelligence.”

Jeffrey Lewis on PBS Newshour

CNS “Sleuths” Featured on PBS Newshour

VIDEO: The open-source analysts show Miles O’Brien how to decode North Korean propaganda.

CNS New Tools Courseware

CNS Publishes New Tools Education Courses Online

Topics include satellite imagery analysis, geographic information systems, virtual reality 3D simulation, and more.

Minecraft Underground Bunkers

It’s Nuclear War. Do You Know Where Your Leaders Are?

Take a virtual reality tour of the government’s apocalypse digs. Really.

Occasional Paper #34 Pyongsan uranium mine map

OP#34: Open-Source Monitoring of Uranium Mining and Milling for Nuclear Nonproliferation Applications

Rapidly evolving open-source tools are giving researchers a window into the first step toward a possible nuclear bomb.