India continues to enhance its land-based ballistic missile arsenal with a robust development and testing regime. The solid-fueled Agni-V intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM), which has a range of over…
Missile
This is a list of the Wisconsin Project’s work related to ballistic missiles. Only nuclear weapon powers, or countries seeking nuclear weapons, have built such missiles. Their accuracy over long distances when armed with a nuclear warhead would destroy most targets. Our research focuses on countries expanding their ballistic missile capacity and on how exports fuel such efforts.
India Missile Milestones: 1947-2012
1947: Dr. Vikram Sarabhai establishes the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), which will later become a national center for space research, supported primarily by India’s Department of Space. 1962: The Defence…
Table of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Arsenal
The table below sets forth what is publicly known about the size and capability of Iran’s nuclear-capable ballistic missiles.
A History of Iran’s Ballistic Missile Program
Iran’s ballistic arsenal is one of the largest in the Middle East, and, according to the Director of National Intelligence, many of Iran’s missiles are “inherently capable of carrying a…
Chinese Exports to Iran
Today, prosecutors in New York revealed that during the past three years, Chinese firms have sold Iran materials useful for making nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. The revelations were the…
China Missile Milestones – 1956-2008
1956: China’s Ministry of Defense creates Fifth Academy to develop ballistic missiles. 1964: China tests its first atomic bomb; first flight of the Dong Feng-2 medium-range missile. 1966: Combined test…
Syria Missile Update – 2005
Since the Risk Report last looked at Syria’s missiles in 2000, Syria has continued to expand its arsenal, which now consists of many hundred liquid-fueled Scud-type missiles, as well as…
India’s Proliferation Record: Nuclear and Missile Diversion
This collection of articles and testimony describes India’s diversion of civilian foreign assistance to its missile and nuclear weapon programs. Analysis Seventeen Myths about the Indian Nuclear Deal Timelines India…
Iran Watch Roundtable: The Impact of U.S.-India Nuclear and Missile Cooperation on Iran – 2005
Panelists: John Larrabee William Lowell Richard Speier Sharon Squassoni Leonard Weiss Moderators: Valerie Lincy Gary Milhollin Lora Saalman Introduction In July 2005, the Bush administration announced an agreement for full…
Yushchenko’s Scorecard: Peace without Security?
Today’s anniversary of the Orange Revolution is being marked in Ukraine as Freedom Day. One year on, the West continues to wish that Ukraine’s new sense of liberty will be…