India declared in January that it would mass-produce and deploy the 250-kilometer range Prithvi missile, despite U.S. pressure on India not to do so. The announcement was accompanied by news…
Missile
This is a list of the Wisconsin Project’s work related to ballistic missiles. Only nuclear weapon powers, or countries seeking nuclear weapons, have built such missiles. Their accuracy over long distances when armed with a nuclear warhead would destroy most targets. Our research focuses on countries expanding their ballistic missile capacity and on how exports fuel such efforts.
South Africa Missile and Nuclear Milestones – 1960-1995
1960s: South African Atomic Energy Board begins research on fissile material production. 1967: U.S.-supplied Safari-1 research reactor at Pelindaba Nuclear Research Center becomes operational; over the next ten years, the…
South Africa’s Nuclear Autopsy
During the past five years, South Africa has made an astonishing strategic turnaround, voluntarily giving up its nuclear arsenal and surrendering its long-range missile capability, all under pressure from the…
South Africa Gives Up Nukes and Missiles; Now Gets High-Tech Imports
South Africa is the only country in history to build nuclear weapons in secret and then dismantle them voluntarily. In July 1991, Pretoria stunned the world by announcing that it…
Iraq is Still a Threat, U.N. Says
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction are still a threat, say U.N. inspectors, who are now digesting a stunning load of incriminating documents found in a chicken coop on an Iraqi…
Libya’s Soviet-Supplied Delivery Systems
Libya has Soviet-supplied Scud and Frog missiles and is trying to build its own heavy missile, the Al-Fatah. The most likely delivery system for Libya’s chemical weapons, however, would be…
Pakistan Needs Foreign Help to Develop Missiles
Pakistan’s lack of modern industry makes it greatly dependent on outside sources for its missile program. It must buy rocket propellant, guidance components and design and testing equipment, U.S. officials…
Pakistan Derives its First “Hatf” Missiles from Foreign Space Rockets
Pakistan’s ability to construct its Hatf missiles grew out of cooperation with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), the American space agency, which helped Pakistan launch sounding rockets in the…
U.S. Relations with China
Congressional Digest August-September 1995, pp. 218, 220-1 China should lose trade privileges with the United States unless Beijing stops sabotaging Western efforts to curb the spread of weapons of mass…
India and Pakistan: New Missiles Increase the Risk of Nuclear War
In May, Pakistan’s President Farooq Leghari blamed India for starting a new arms race in South Asia that would “endanger peace in the region.” He warned that Islamabad would not…