The Wall Street Journal Europe April 12, 1995, p. 6 Germany is preparing to do what most governments consider the unthinkable – reveal the names of Third World companies linked…
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.
Iraq: Monitoring its Future
Iraq’s drive to lift the U.N. oil embargo is raising the specter that Iraq may soon get the petrodollars it needs to rebuild its mass destruction war machine the factories…
Brazil Shops for Help With a Nuclear Submarine
Brazil is trying to buy a sintering furnace for its nuclear submarine program, U.S. and industry officials say. The special projects branch of Brazilian navy, COPESP, wants to use the…
Testimony: The Proliferation 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 House Committee on National Security Subcommittee on Military Procurement and…
Iraq: U. S. Thwarts Saddam’s Smuggling Efforts
Recent U.S. efforts to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction have paid off, with a guilty plea from the man who arranged the shipment of 30 tons of…
Sanctions Felt Worldwide
Foreign company executives often worry about the reach of U.S. sanctions for selling nuclear, missile or chemical and biological products to the wrong buyer. But companies that screen their sales…
Israel Gets High-Speed Computers
In November, the United States approved the sale of powerful computers that could boost Israel’s well-known but officially secret A-bomb and missile programs. The most controversial exports are a pair…
India: Commerce Approves Most U.S. Nuclear-related Exports
Less than 2 percent of U.S. applications to export nuclear dual-use equipment to India were denied from 1988-1992, according to a report published last year by the U.S. General Accounting…
Plutonium Plunder: Nuclear Smuggling is on the Rise
The Boston Sunday Globe September 4, 1994, p. 65 This summer, the German police are suddenly reporting a flood of nuclear smuggling cases. Small amounts of nuclear material have leaked…
Arsenals Abroad: Proliferation In Disguise
The New York Times July 18, 1994, p. A15 This week the House takes up a bill that would make it easier for terrorist nations to build nuclear weapons, chemical…