India: Missile Helpers

India did not build its missiles alone. The world’s leading rocket producers gave essential help in research, development and manufacture. France Licensed production of sounding rockets in India Supplied the…

India’s Missile Shopping List

India is still weak in many vital rocket technologies, and needs help in composites, electronics, computers, sensors, navigation, guidance, control and propulsion, according to a Pentagon study which ranks countries’…

Asia’s Nuclear Nightmare: The German Connection

The Washington Post June 10, 1990, p. C1 Despite the summit’s rosy afterglow, the risk of nuclear war is higher now than at any time in the past decade —…

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…

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…

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…

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 —…

Dateline New Delhi: India’s Nuclear Cover-Up

Foreign Policy Fall, 1986, p. 161-175 In 1974, India became the first and only country in the world to explode an atomic bomb made from materials imported for peaceful nuclear…