The business world is focused on the potential of Artificial Intelligence as a result of Open AI's offerings such as Chat GPT. CNS is examining the duality of AI - both how it might contribute to proliferation and how it may be used to counter proliferation.

Analysis of trade data can provide insight both into general trends in trade and specific transactions of concern. Trade data can be sourced at both the transactional and aggregate level. Analysis of aggregate trade data often requires custom tools such as flow maps.

This project focuses on the curation of image sets related to weapons and dual-use goods and to the training of image recognition tools to recognise these items. 

Scientists love to publish their work. As a result, important insights can be gleaned from scientific publications about who is working on what, for what purpose, an with what result. Scientific publication analysis has thus long been an important tool of scientific intelligence. 

International security issues are frequently covered by news outlets. Some news articles contain new information about particularly programs, entities and facilities. As such, media monitoring has been a key tool to monitor international security and proliferation issues. 

The Nonproliferation Archive (nonproarchive.com) is not a Fusion Labs project, as such, but it was built by Dr Ian Stewart alongside the other projects described on this site. The Nonproliferation Archive epitomises the types of project Dr Stewart is undertaking.

The premise of Fusion Labs is that the nonproliferation domain, like many other domains, can be usefully conceptualsed and examined as a data domain. By compiling all available relevant data, new connections can be identified and new insights can be gleaned. 

The nonproliferation domain is full of highly interrelated data such as networks of individuals and organisations, scientific research networks, and trade networks. Graph databases offer potentially unique capabilities for storing and leveraging highly interrelated data.

This project focuses on the development of browser-based tools for link analysis (otherwise known as network analysis). 

This project focuses on application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to nonproliferation problems. This includes identification of use cases, application of LLMs to these use cases, and exploring opportunities to train or retrain LLMs to make them better suited to these use cases. 

Natural Language Processing has a number of important uses for nonproliferation purposes. This includes categorising news articles and extracting the names of entities, organisations, and facilities from text.

This project focuses on the development of a nonproliferation