The Washington Post June 10, 1990, p. C1 Despite the summit’s rosy afterglow, the risk of nuclear war is higher now than at any time in the past decade —…
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.
Israel’s A-Bombs and Norway’s Heavy Water: The Steps to Revelation
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Why Are We Helping the Third World Go Nuclear?
The Washington Post April 1, 1990, p. C1 Last week’s allegations of a plot to smuggle nuclear warhead detonators from the United States to Iraq, together with reports that China…
Poison Gas Laws: Still Leaking
The New York Times March 25, 1990, Section 4, Page 19 When Libya’s poison-gas plant burned down last week, many people were relieved. Instead, they should have been horrified –…
India’s Missiles – With a Little Help from Our Friends
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists November 1989, pp. 31-35 Last May 22, India became the first country to test a strategic missile derived from a civilian space program. The missile’s…
Israel’s Reactor in Full Swing – With Norwegian Heavy Water
Aftenposten July 6, 1989, p. 5 Israel’s Dimona reactor is working fine. Every year, its Norwegian heavy water makes about 32 kilograms of plutonium, which the C.I.A. says is going…
Bombs for the World
Die Zeit (English Translation) January 13, 1989, p. 44 Why should Germany, an otherwise responsible country, shelter nuclear blackmarketeers? Germany’s help to Libya’s poison gas plant–just revealed by the New York…
Bonn’s Proliferation Policy
The New York Times January 4, 1989, Page A21 It should come as no surprise that a West German company has been accused of helping Libya build a plant to…
Testimony: Possible German Export Control Violations
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the Second Committee of Investigation, Duetscher Bundestag October 13, 1988 I am pleased to have this opportunity to…
Germany’s Heavy Water Laundry
In early May of this year, Norway confirmed that a German company had diverted 15 tons of its “heavy water” from international controls in 1983. Heavy water, or deuterium oxide,…