Today, Israel is the world’s sixth most powerful nuclear state, with a stockpile of more than 100 nuclear weapons and with the components and ability to build atomic, neutron and…
Analysis
The Wisconsin Project’s reports track WMD programs and the companies supplying them. In op-eds and articles, we argue for strict enforcement of strategic trade controls to inhibit proliferation.
Dubai is a Growing Diversion Risk, German Officials Say
German officials tell the Risk Report that Iran is increasingly using Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to obtain high technology, particularly electronic `equipment. They say that Iranians operating in…
Israel’s Uranium Processing and Enrichment
Israel has relied on plutonium, rather than high-enriched uranium, as the primary fuel for its nuclear weapons. Nonetheless, Israel has developed the ability to process and enrich uranium at the…
Israel’s Plutonium Production
Israel makes plutonium for atomic bombs at Dimona, a secret nuclear complex in the Negev Desert. The French-supplied reactor there has produced plutonium free from international controls since 1963. The…
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) to Work with Westinghouse on Advanced Reactor
The Clinton administration has approved six one-year visas that will allow nuclear engineers from the China National Nuclear Corporation to work on the development of Westinghouse’s most advanced nuclear reactor,…
Israel: U.S. Turns Down Shavit Rocket
In early May, the Clinton administration denied a request from Israel to sell its “Shavit” space launcher to the U.S. Air Force, which wanted to use the Shavit to launch…
Chinese Firms Diverted U.S. Machine Tools, Commerce Department Finds
Three Chinese companies “knowingly violated” U.S. export regulations by diverting sensitive American machine tools to a missile factory in Nanchang, according to a Commerce Department investigation completed in late 1995….
Israel Gets U.S. Supercomputer for Secret Military Site
U.S. officials have approved the sale of an American supercomputer to Israel’s Ministry of Defense for use at a secret military site, knowledgeable U.S. officials tell the Risk Report. The…
Testimony: The Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School and Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations March…
Dubai Tries to Build a Modern Customs Agency
Two years ago, Dr. Obaid Saqer Busit became the youngest Director-General of the Dubai Department of Ports and Customs. At the age of thirty-four, he was suddenly responsible for tracking…