The Washington Post February 6, 1994, p. C3 Are They Soft on Nuclear Proliferation for the Sake of the Arms Industry? “Sensible and safe.” That was the verdict of 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.
Who Armed Iraq? Answers the West Didn’t Want to Hear
The New York Times Week in Review July 18, 1993 The terms of the punishment forced on Iraq since the Persian Gulf War may be most valuable for what they…
Israeli A-Bombs and Norwegian Heavy Water: Arms Control Through Public Pressure
Remarks in Rjukan, Norway Despite its small size, Norway has made a large contribution to the spread of nuclear weapons–essentially by selling heavy water. According to the Norwegian government, by…
Testimony: American Trade Relations with China
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School and Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade…
Can Sanctions Stop The Bomb?
Paper given at the conference entitled Economic Sanctions and International Relations Fourth Freedom Forum and The Joan B. Crock Institute for International Peace Studies Notre Dame University My topic today is…
Knocking on the Clubhouse Door
The New York Times The Week in Review January 10, 1993 The international market in missile and nuclear arms technology has been thriving in the 1990’s. The Wisconsin Project on…
The Pentagon and the Bomb
Structuring the Department of Defense to Combat Nuclear Arms Proliferation What U.N. inspection teams discovered in the aftermath of the gulf war–that a massive, secret nuclear weapon program had brought…
How Western greed created Hussein’s Iraq
A Review of THE DEATH LOBBY How the West Armed Iraq. By Kenneth Timmerman. Houghton Mifflin. 443 pp. Illustrated. $21.95. Saddam Hussein may have done the world a favor. By invading…
Testimony: U.S. Exports to Iraq
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School and Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs October 27,…
Winking at Proliferation
The Washington Post August 16, 1992, p. C2 Why Are U.S. Firms Still Able to Aid the Mideast Missile Race? The Bush administration this summer has missed a major opportunity…