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Open Nuclear Network Joins PAX sapiens

We are pleased to announce that starting in June 2024, Open Nuclear Network (ONN) will join the PAX sapiens (PAX) foundation, which is part of the Marcel Arsenault and Cynda Collins Arsenault family of foundations.

June 20,2024

ONN partners with Swift Centre

ONN is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with Swift Centre, a renowned forecasting organisation. This collaboration, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed earlier last week, will integrate advanced forecasting techniques with ONN's open-source data analysis efforts, bolstering ONN's ability to anticipate and analyse developments in international security.

May 21,2024

ONN Director Andreas Persbo Becomes Part of the International Gender Champions Vienna Hub

ONN Director Andreas Persbo has joined the International Gender Champions Vienna Hub leadership network that brings together decision-makers determined to break down gender barriers and make gender equality a working reality in their spheres of influence.

March 25,2024

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Jeffrey Glenn Lewis

June 03, 2020

South Korea's Hyunmoo-4 and Increasing Missile Capabilities across Northeast Asia

While North Korea gets most of the attention when it comes to the subject of missile proliferation on the Korean Peninsula, South Korea too has a substantial missile program. The public received a rare glimpse into South Korea’s missile programs in May, when South Korean news outlets reported on a t...

Clayton Besaw

May 22, 2020

Unpacking Russian Presidential Speech Patterns with Machine Learning

Natural language processing and topic modeling specifically have proliferated in accessibility over the past decade. Topic modeling algorithms such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) are now considered a type of "work-horse" tool for uncovering patterns (topics) in large sets of text data.

Melissa Hanham

Jaewoo Shin

May 21, 2020

Ethics in the Age of OSINT Innocence

Increased availability and lower cost of satellite imagery has made it accessible to civil society in recent years. While universities, think tanks, and nongovernmental organizations are racing ahead to incorporate this form of open source intelligence (OSINT) into their regular research work, there...

Jeffrey Glenn Lewis

May 14, 2020

Monitoring Iran's Solid Rocket Program from Space

On April 22, Iran placed a small satellite in orbit. The space launch was notable for two reasons. First, the launch was conducted by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), not Iran's civilian space program. Second, the rocket used a new solid-propellant second stage (the Salman), which th...

Laura Rockwood

Veronika Bedenko

May 01, 2020

Nuclear Risk Reduction and COVID-19: What One Existential Threat Can Teach Us about Another

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, competing international security priorities including arms control, nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, are taking a back seat. The delayed response to COVID-19 suggests some troubling analogies to the current state of affairs in the nuclear arena.

Threat similarities between nuclear weapons and COVID-19

Tianran Xu

Jaewoo Shin

April 23, 2020

A Tale of Two Missiles: Analysis of KCNA Reports on DPRK's KN-23 and KN-24 Short-Range Ballistic Missiles

Since May 2019, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has repeatedly tested two new solid-fuel short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM). Unlike liquid SRBMs such as the SCUD-B/C, the KN-23 and KN-24 missile systems have different designs, means of transportation, and launch methods. However,...

April 01, 2020

OEF's Open Nuclear Network Programme Joins European Non-proliferation and Disarmament Network

Open Nuclear Network joins the European non-proliferation and disarmament network (EUNPD), a collection of think tanks combating weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems.

Tianran Xu

March 23, 2020

Analysis of the KN-25 Multiple Rocket Launcher System after the 9 March 2020 DPRK Test

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea launched at least two "super-large calibre" multiple rocket launcher rounds into the Sea of Japan or East Sea on 9 March 2020. It is the sixth confirmed test launch of the system, with a total of at least 12 such rockets having been launched since it was dev...

March 10, 2020

Open Nuclear Network: A New Open Source Data Peace Initiative to Reduce Nuclear Risk

ONN combines open source data technology with a multinational team of experienced analysts and researchers, and its expert coordination of a global Engagement Network of accomplished individuals who are well positioned to open doors for dialogue among global leaders.

March 10, 2020

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Open Nuclear Network Joins PAX sapiens

ONN partners with Swift Centre

ONN Director Andreas Persbo Becomes Part of the International Gender Champions Vienna Hub

Search ONN News and Events

South Korea's Hyunmoo-4 and Increasing Missile Capabilities across Northeast Asia

Unpacking Russian Presidential Speech Patterns with Machine Learning

Ethics in the Age of OSINT Innocence

Monitoring Iran's Solid Rocket Program from Space

Nuclear Risk Reduction and COVID-19: What One Existential Threat Can Teach Us about Another

A Tale of Two Missiles: Analysis of KCNA Reports on DPRK's KN-23 and KN-24 Short-Range Ballistic Missiles

OEF's Open Nuclear Network Programme Joins European Non-proliferation and Disarmament Network

Analysis of the KN-25 Multiple Rocket Launcher System after the 9 March 2020 DPRK Test

Open Nuclear Network: A New Open Source Data Peace Initiative to Reduce Nuclear Risk

New Programme Aims to Reduce the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Use

Meet Nuclear Analyst Tianran Xu

Meet Nuclear Analyst Jaewoo Shin

Meet Nuclear Analyst Veronika Bedenko

OEF Nuclear Programme Provides Perspective on Risk Reduction Methods

"North Korea Marks Year of Failed Trump Talks with Missiles" by Jihye Lee for Bloomberg

"Hackers Could Shut down Satellites - Or Turn Them into Weapons" by William Akoto for The Conversation

OEF's Open Nuclear Network Programme Supports Call for Ethical Standards in Imagery Analysis