New Tools & Emerging Technologies

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.

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.

OP#33: WMD Proliferation Risks at the Nexus of 3D Printing and DIY Communities

Occasional Paper #33 examines the degree to which additive manufacturing – including its distribution and use – may be introducing new proliferation risks.

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.

New Tools Workshop 2017

Workshop on Applications of Innovative Tools and Technologies for Nonproliferation

CNS connected nonproliferation researchers and practitioners with leading tech developers in Silicon Valley.