China’s Stockpile of Bomb Fuel

China enriched the uranium for its first atomic bomb in 1964 at the Lanzhou gaseous diffusion plant in Gansu province. In the 1970s, a second, much larger, plant was built…

Pakistan Needs Foreign Help to Develop Missiles

Pakistan’s lack of modern industry makes it greatly dependent on outside sources for its missile program. It must buy rocket propellant, guidance components and design and testing equipment, U.S. officials…

Pentagon Urges Reduction in Controls on Supercomputers

The Defense Department is urging other federal agencies to agree to a sharp reduction in existing controls on the export of supercomputers. The Pentagon’s position is based on a study…

Pakistan: Nuclear Helpers

Belgium Supplied New Labs plutonium extraction plant Canada Supplied Kanupp power reactor including fuel and spare parts until 1976 China Supplied a tested bomb design and high-enriched uranium fuel Supplied…

Fire Sale

The New York Times September 18, 1995, p. A15 The Defense Department has found a new mission: to make it easier for Russia and China to improve their nuclear arsenals…

Iran: Nuclear Suspicion Grows

U.S. intelligence believes Iran is running a two-track nuclear effort. On one side, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) is buying reactors for a “civilian” nuclear program. On the…