Submarine Detection and Monitoring: Open-Source Tools and Technologies
Using tools like commercial satellite imagery, radar, sensors, and media analysis, we can understand fleet details, construction, and potentially patrol patterns and behaviors.
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Assessing and Managing the Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear-Weapon Systems
New paper explores the possible applications of AI to nuclear-weapons systems and assesses the benefits, risks, and strategic stability implications.
Signals in the Noise: Preventing Nuclear Proliferation with Machine Learning & Publicly Available Information
With the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, NTI demonstrates the viability of using publicly available information and machine learning to detect nuclear proliferation.
U.S. Nuclear Modernization: Security & Policy Implications of Integrating Digital Technology
NTI explores the risks and benefits related to the digitization and automation plans for modernization of U.S. nuclear weapons systems and addresses implications for the national security community to consider as the process moves forward.
The NTI Nuclear Security Index
Assesses countries’ progress on nuclear security, highlights security gaps, and recommends actions for governments to better protect nuclear materials and facilities and build an effective global nuclear security architecture.
Dismantle Bombs, Not Treaties
Progress on nuclear arms limitation and reduction is at risk, learn more and dismantle a nuclear weapon in augmented reality. (CNS)
Radioactive Investigators: Recovering Orphan Radioactive Sources with Innovative Methods and New Tools
CNS experts use new tools to track and recover unaccounted radioactive sources, called "orphan" sources. (CNS)
Biosecurity Innovation and Risk Reduction: A Global Framework for Accessible, Safe and Secure DNA Synthesis
Russia’s New Nuclear Weapon Delivery Systems: An Open-Source Technical Review
The first detailed, exclusively open-source assessment of the five new nuclear weapon systems announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018
Financial Incentives for Biotechnology Investors to Improve Biosecurity
Biotechnology innovation now affects nearly every sector of the global economy.