From 1986 to 1990, the U-S. Commerce Department approved over $300 million worth of sensitive American exports to Iran and Syria. Most of these were “dual-use” items, capable of making…
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Listed below is a collection of the Wisconsin Project’s work related to U.S. export control policy and the Project’s advocacy for strong export controls as the best way to inhibit the spread of technologies used to make weapons of mass destruction.
Licensing Mass Destruction: U.S. Exports to Iraq: 1985-1990
INTRODUCTION The U.S. Department of Commerce licensed more than $1.5 billion worth of sensitive U.S. exports to Iraq from 1985 to 1990.[1] Most were “dual-use” items, capable of making nuclear…
Sensitive U.S. Exports to WMD Procurement Agents in Iraq
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the House and Senate Joint Economic Committee Subcommittee on Technology and National Security April 23, 1991 I am…
Designing the Third World Bomb
Wisconsin Academy Review Winter 1990-1991, p.15-18 The conflict in the Gulf should refocus attention on a frightening fact of modern life: Third World tyrants, armed with missiles and A-bombs, are…
Testimony: Weak U.S. Export Controls Contribute to Iraqi WMD Efforts
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the House Committee on Government Operations Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs September 21, 1990 I am…
Must the U.S. Give Brazil and Iraq the Bomb?
The New York Times July 29, 1990, p. 19 Iraq, with modern armed forces numbering a million and with a leader driven by dangerous ambitions, started a war with Iran, threatens…
Attention, Nuke-Mart Shoppers!
The Washington Post July 22, 1990, p. C2 On July 1, the United States and its allies lifted export controls on the very nuclear weapon triggers — called “krytons” —…
Why Are We Helping the Third World Go Nuclear?
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…
Testimony: Proposed Nuclear Trade Agreement with Japan
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs March 2, 1988 Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to testify on the…
Tarapur: A Brief for the United States
Summary India has received reactors and reactor fuel from the United States through an Agreement for Cooperation. Those reactors (at Tarapur, near Bombay) have produced spent fuel from which India…