India’s Chemical Exports Worry U.S. Officials

Indian companies are still a chemical proliferation threat, U.S. officials say, despite the Indian government’s effort to rein them in. The threat was demonstrated graphically in April, when a U.S….

How Far Can Israel’s Missiles Fly?

On April 5, Israel launched its first spy satellite, the Ofek-3, giving Israel the ability to photograph and gather intelligence data on its neighbors. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin applauded the…

Israeli Cited for Chemical Weapon Proliferation

In its May issue, the Risk Report revealed that an individual named Nahum Manbar, cited last year by the U.S. government for chemical weapon proliferation, was an Israeli citizen. It…

Pakistan Needs Help to Make Plutonium and Tritium

Pakistan is building a secret reactor that closely resembles the reactor India used to make its first atomic bomb, a U.S. official says. The former head of Pakistan’s Atomic Energy…

Israel Aims to Improve Missile Accuracy

Visiting the United States in 1987, an Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) official didn’t hesitate to answer a question about the accuracy he expected from future Israeli missiles: “A 1,000-kilometer missile…

China’s Missile Shopping List

China has experience in most critical military technologies, but it is continually shopping for better technology, especially American high technology. “There’s virtually no technology that they don’t have some capability…

China: U.S. Law Controls Missile-related Exports

U.S. aerospace trade with China is growing, with annual sales now exceeding $2 billion. But exporters must pay close attention to the end-uses of their products to determine whether a…

Chinese Missiles: Threat and Capability

China may be the only country in the world that targets U.S. cities with nuclear missiles. And it is the only country still conducting nuclear tests, in part to develop…