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…
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.
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…
3 Scandals Oslo Must Put to Rest
International Herald Tribune October 7, 1988, p. 6 WASHINGTON – Norway is facing three scandals this fall, all caused by the sale of heavy water, which is used in nuclear…
Norway’s Heavy Water Scandals
Aftenposten (Oslo) September 14, 1988 This autumn, Norway faces three heavy water scandals. Israel is running the Dimona reactor–which the CIA says is making plutonium for atomic bombs–by using Norwegian heavy…
A Heavy Water Whitewash
Arbeiderbladet (Oslo) April 20, 1988 Seventeen months ago, the world learned of Norway’s nuclear deal with Israel. The deal was simple: Israel got 20 tons of heavy water and Norway…