The New York Times November 25, 1987, p. A27 For nearly 30 years, countries have sold nuclear materials around the world with the requirements that the importing nations promise to…
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.
Heavy Water Cheaters
Foreign Policy Winter 1987-1988, p. 100-119 Civilian nuclear exports are founded on two assumptions: No country will export a crucial item without requiring a pledge of peaceful use or use…
How Many Norwegian A-Bombs Do You Have?
Arbeiderbladet (Oslo) October 24, 1987 At the end of last month, Israel finally rejected Norway’s request for international inspection of the heavy water Norway sent to Israel in 1959. Norway wanted…
India’s Back Door to the Atomic Club
The Philadelphia Inquirer September 29, 1987, p. 22-A Pakistan has been trying to smuggle its way to the atomic bomb, and has got caught. A Pakistani native is to be tried…
Stopping the Indian Bomb
The American Journal of International Law July, 1987, 81 A.J.I.L. 593 South Asia is now poised for a nuclear arms race. Pakistan has learned how to make enriched uranium —…
Israel’s Answer a Fabrication
Arbeiderbladet May 11, 1987 In 1965, Kirk Douglas led a group of courageous Norwegians across the silver screen to Telemark. Their objective? Norwegian heavy water. They would — and did…
Who Controls the Israeli Bomb?
Arbeider Bladet (Oslo) January 21, 1987 The results are now as official as they can get: Israel has the bomb. The revelations of an Israeli arms technician, and a string of…
Testimony: Risks of Plutonium Use in World Commerce
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs And on International Economic Policy…