Today, Israel is the world’s sixth most powerful nuclear state, with a stockpile of more than 100 nuclear weapons and with the components and ability to build atomic, neutron and…
Nuclear
This is a list of the Wisconsin Project’s work related to nuclear weapons. One nuclear weapon could kill millions and destroy the natural environment. It is the most dangerous weapon on earth. Preventing the spread of technology and material that can be used in such weapons is the Wisconsin Project’s founding mission and our ongoing objective.
Israel’s Uranium Processing and Enrichment
Israel has relied on plutonium, rather than high-enriched uranium, as the primary fuel for its nuclear weapons. Nonetheless, Israel has developed the ability to process and enrich uranium at the…
Israel’s Plutonium Production
Israel makes plutonium for atomic bombs at Dimona, a secret nuclear complex in the Negev Desert. The French-supplied reactor there has produced plutonium free from international controls since 1963. The…
China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) to Work with Westinghouse on Advanced Reactor
The Clinton administration has approved six one-year visas that will allow nuclear engineers from the China National Nuclear Corporation to work on the development of Westinghouse’s most advanced nuclear reactor,…
Testimony: The Spread 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 Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations March…
Will U.S. Supercomputers Design Russian A-Bombs?
The Clinton administration may soon allow American supercomputers to be sold to Russian laboratories that design atomic and hydrogen bombs. The sales the first such exports in history are fiercely…
Exporting an Arms Race
The New York Times February 20, 1996, p. A19 The White House is about to take one of the greatest national security gambles since the end of the cold war….
Iran Replies to the Risk Report; Denies It Wants the Bomb
Dr. Mohamed Sadegh Ayatollahi, Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, has written a detailed response to the September issue of…
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…