Brazil is trying to buy a sintering furnace for its nuclear submarine program, U.S. and industry officials say. The special projects branch of Brazilian navy, COPESP, wants to use the…
Export Controls & Sanctions
The Wisconsin Project conducts research and advocacy to support robust controls on strategic goods and enforcement of autonomous and international sanctions. Export controls and sanctions are powerful means of inhibiting the spread of technologies used to make weapons of mass destruction. Listed below is a selection of the Wisconsin Project’s work in these areas, including analysis of export control enforcement cases, Iran sanctions violations, and commentary on U.S. export control policy.
Testimony: The Proliferation 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 House Committee on National Security Subcommittee on Military Procurement and…
Iraq: U. S. Thwarts Saddam’s Smuggling Efforts
Recent U.S. efforts to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction have paid off, with a guilty plea from the man who arranged the shipment of 30 tons of…
Sanctions Felt Worldwide
Foreign company executives often worry about the reach of U.S. sanctions for selling nuclear, missile or chemical and biological products to the wrong buyer. But companies that screen their sales…
Israel Gets High-Speed Computers
In November, the United States approved the sale of powerful computers that could boost Israel’s well-known but officially secret A-bomb and missile programs. The most controversial exports are a pair…
India: Commerce Approves Most U.S. Nuclear-related Exports
Less than 2 percent of U.S. applications to export nuclear dual-use equipment to India were denied from 1988-1992, according to a report published last year by the U.S. General Accounting…
Plutonium Plunder: Nuclear Smuggling is on the Rise
The Boston Sunday Globe September 4, 1994, p. 65 This summer, the German police are suddenly reporting a flood of nuclear smuggling cases. Small amounts of nuclear material have leaked…
Arsenals Abroad: Proliferation In Disguise
The New York Times July 18, 1994, p. A15 This week the House takes up a bill that would make it easier for terrorist nations to build nuclear weapons, chemical…
Testimony: Renewing the Export Administration Act
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School and Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the House Committee on Armed Services June 15, 1994 I thank…
25 Myths About Export Control
In 1941, it took an entire Japanese carrier task force with some 300 planes to inflict 3,000 deaths at Pearl Harbor. Less than four years later, a single American plane…