Los Angeles Times March 4, 2001, p. M5 The Bush administration is conducting a top-to-bottom review of America’s defenses to see whether they can handle, among other things, the growing…
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.
Fast Computers, Deadly Enemies
The New York Times January 31, 2001, p. A25 As President Bush sifts through the pile of his predecessor’s last-minute directives to spot the executive orders he wants to –…
Clinton’s Super Computer Push
Asian Wall Street Journal September 19, 2000, p. 6 U.S. companies are selling countries the super computers they need to build the weapons America will have to defend against. Much…
Testimony: The Export of Dual-Use Technology
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School and Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs May 26, 2000 I…
Testimony: The Export Administration Act of 2000
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School and Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the Senate Committee on Armed Services March 23, 2000 I…
Testimony: The Situation in Iraq
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School and Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Senate…
Exporting Trouble
The Washington Post Outlook March 12, 2000, p. B3 With Looser Computer Controls, We’re Selling Our Safety Short HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS aren’t like most other products that U.S. companies sell abroad….
Perspective on Weapons: Outfitting China’s Military – Again
Los Angeles Times January 23, 2000, p. M5 Commerce Dept. Works to Allow the Export of a Tool Like the Ones that Prompted a Justice Dept. Indictment. Just over two…
Dept. of Mass Destruction: Saddam’s nuclear shopping spree
The New Yorker The Talk of the Town December 13, 1999, p. 44 Ever since the United Nations weapons inspectors were shut out of Iraq, a year ago, the world…
Testimony: Supercomputer Export Controls – 1999
Testimony of Gary Milhollin Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School and Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Before the House Committee on Armed Services October 28, 1999 I…