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2010
Technical Note: Iran Recycles the Tails in the Production of 19.75 Percent Uranium August 6, 2010
Yadegari Sentenced to 20 Months Plus Time Served ; Worked for Procurement Ring that Supplied Iran’s Enrichment Program August 2, 2010
What is Iran’s competence in operating centrifuges?
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Stricker July 26, 2010
Update: New Charges for Irish Company Suspected of Military Exports to Iran July 16, 2010
After the 2010 NPT Review Conference: Advancing the Non-Proliferation Pillar
David Albright and Andrea Stricker July 15, 2010
U.S. Company Faces Penalties for Alleged Nuclear Export Attempts to India, Israel
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Stricker July 14, 2010
Has Iran initiated a slow motion breakout to a nuclear weapon?
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Stricker July 12, 2010
New Satellite Image of Chashma Nuclear Site in Pakistan July 9, 2010
Man Suspected of Illicit Nuclear Trade to Iran Found Guilty July 6, 2010
Eli Lake’s New Report and the Inadvertent Conflation of Sources About the Notorious Tinner Family July 2, 2010
New Der Spiegel Article on Iran’s Nuclear Program June 21, 2010
Taking Stock of the Production of 19.75 Percent Uranium at the PFEP
by David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Jacqueline Shire June 11, 2010
India Expanding Military Nuclear Site
Paul Brannan June 2, 2010
IAEA Iran Report: Enrichment Increases Slightly; Lack of Adequate Safeguards
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire
Charts prepared by Christina Walrond May 31, 2010
Was Kakavand’s Acquittal Part of a Quid Pro Quo with Iran? - Update II May 19, 2010
Iran’s Proposed LEU deal: Skeptical but Awaiting Clarification May 17, 2010
Update: U.S. Extradition Request Denied in France for Alleged Iranian Military Parts Smuggler May 12, 2010
Iran’s new centrifuge: What do we know about it?
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire, and Paul Brannan April 13, 2010
Malaysia Finally Adopts National Export Controls
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Christina Walrond April 9, 2010
What the Nuclear Posture Review means for proliferation and nuclear “outliers” April 6, 2010
Defected Iranian Nuclear Scientist Reportedly Worked Across from Secret Nuclear Weapons R&D Facility March 31, 2010
Detecting and Disrupting Illicit Nuclear Trade after A.Q. Khan (published in the Washington Quarterly Vol. 33)
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker March 26, 2010
Steam Emitted From Second Khushab Reactor Cooling Towers; Pakistan May Be Operating Second Reactor
Paul Brannan March 24, 2010
Pakistani Government Seeks to Investigate A.Q. Khan’s Activities March 22, 2010
The Price of Getting Documents from A.Q. Khan: Carrying his Water
David Albright and Paul Brannan March 17, 2010
Washington Post article featuring ISIS’ book Peddling Peril March 10, 2010
Supplement to Iran’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Taking Stock
David Albright and Christina Walrond March 3, 2010
Latest Collaboration Between ISIS and the Media on Illicit Trade March 1, 2010
IAEA Report on Iran: Enrichment at Natanz improving; entire LEU tank moved to PFEP ; no progress on weaponization February 18, 2010
French Court Delays Decision over Extradition of Majid Kakavand February 17, 2010
Busting the Members at the Core of Iran’s Smuggling Networks for Nuclear, Missile, and Conventional Military Goods*
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Former Iranian Ambassador Arrested in Britain for Allegedly Assisting Iran-Directed Smuggling Scheme
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Inventive U.S. Sting Operation Catches Iran-Based Military Equipment Smuggler
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Middleman Majid Kakavand Arrested for Allegedly Directing Malaysia-Based Iranian Illicit Procurement Scheme
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Arrest Made in Germany of Core Iranian Procurement Agent
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Busting the Members at the Core of Iran’s Smuggling Networks for Nuclear, Missile, and Conventional Military Goods February 16, 2010
Iran’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Taking Stock
David Albright and Christina Walrond February 11, 2010
Iran’s enrichment for the Tehran Research Reactor: Update
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire February 9, 2010
Iran’s recent statements about production of fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor: A quick review
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire February 8, 2010
Burma: A Nuclear Wannabe; Suspicious Links to North Korea; High-Tech Procurements and Enigmatic Facilities
David Albright, Paul Brannan, Robert Kelley and Andrea Scheel Stricker January 28, 2010
Exploring Claims about Secret Nuclear Sites in Myanmar
Robert Kelley, Andrea Scheel Stricker and Paul Brannan January 28, 2010
Deep Connections between Myanmar’s Department of Atomic Energy and the DTVE
Andrea Scheel Stricker January 28, 2010
Questions and Answers regarding Iranian document: “Outlook for special neutron-related activities over the next 4 years” January 5, 2010
2009
Iran’s Uranium Stockpile Dwindling
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire December 30, 2009
The Trials of the German-Iranian Trader Mohsen Vanaki: The German Federal Intelligence Service Assesses that Iran Likely Has a Nuclear Weapons Program (Updated for December 15, 2009)
David Albright and Christina Walrond December 15, 2009
Documents Assessing the Organizational Structure of FEDAT December 14, 2009
Farsi and English Versions of Document on Neutron Initiator December 14, 2009
New Document Reopens Question on Whether Iran’s Nuclear Weaponization Work Continued Past 2003 December 14, 2009
Self-Serving Leaks from the A.Q. Khan Circle
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker December 9, 2009
Further Comments Regarding the BAS Article on Fordow
David Albright and Paul Brannan December 4, 2009
Critique of Recent Bulletin of Atomic Scientists article on the Fordow Enrichment Plant
David Albright and Paul Brannan November 30, 2009
New Satellite Image Further Narrows Fordow Construction Start Date
Paul Brannan November 18, 2009
ISIS Analysis of November 16, 2009 IAEA Report on Syria
Paul Brannan November 16, 2009
IAEA Report on Iran: Fordow enrichment plant at “advanced stage of construction;” decline in number of P1 centrifuges enriching but P1 centrifuge efficiency increases; discovery of previously unknown stock of heavy water
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire November 16, 2009
Satellite Imagery Narrows Qom Enrichment Facility Construction Start Date
Paul Brannan November 5, 2009
A Smuggler’s Use of the U.S. Financial System to Receive Illegal Payments from Iran
Andrea Scheel Stricker October 23, 2009
Update: Smuggler Previously Convicted of Aircraft Export Control Violations; Disguised Company As a Larger Operation
Andrea Scheel Stricker October 23, 2009
Decision Reached on Vanaki Case: Landgericht Finds Defendant Guilty, Issues Suspended Sentence
David Albright and Christina Walrond October 23, 2009
The Trials of the German-Iranian Trader Mohsen Vanaki: The German Federal Intelligence Service Assesses that Iran Likely Has a Nuclear Weapons Program
David Albright and Christina Walrond October 23, 2009
Technical Note: Annual Future Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel Requirements for the Tehran Research Reactor
David Albright October 7, 2009
Timeline 1967-1993: Argentine Low-Enriched Uranium at the Tehran Research Reactor
Christina Walrond October 7, 2009
Excerpts from Internal IAEA Document on Alleged Iranian Nuclear Weaponization October 2, 2009
Qom Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Site in Iran May Have Been Re-purposed Tunnel Facility
Paul Brannan September 29, 2009
Suspected Qom Enrichment Plant Site Imagery Overlay by Ogle Earth September 28, 2009
New Satellite Imagery of Suspected Gas Centrifuge Site Near Qom, Iran September 27, 2009
Satellite Imagery of Two Possible Sites of the Qom Enrichment Facility in Iran September 25, 2009
U.S. statements regarding the disclosure of the Qom enrichment plant September 25, 2009
What is Venezuela Up To? Chavez’s Latest Efforts to Purchase Nuclear Technology are Cause for Concern
Andrea Scheel September 22, 2009
No Reconstruction at the Yongbyon Reactor Site September 4, 2009
Natanz Enrichment Plant: How to Measure Progress
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Jacqueline Shire September 1, 2009
ISIS Analysis of the August 2009 IAEA Report on Iran: Centrifuges increase; Rate of LEU production steady; progress on inspection requests at Arak and Natanz; no progress on possible military dimensions
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Jacqueline Shire August 28, 2009
Update on the Arak Heavy Water Reactor in Iran August 25, 2009
Mysteries Deepen Over Status of Arak Reactor Project
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Robert Kelley August 11, 2009
Imagery Brief of Tunnel Complexes and Unindentified Building in Myanmar August 3, 2009
Smugglers Assist North Korea-Directed Illicit Trade to Myanmar
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel July 14, 2009
A Smuggler’s Procurement of Nuclear Dual-Use Pressure Transducers for Iran
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel July 14, 2009
Misconceptions about Iran’s Nuclear Program
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire July 8, 2009
IAEA Report on Syria: Undeclared Uranium Particles Found in Hot Cell Facility in Damascus; Syria Not Answering IAEA's Questions
David Albright and Paul Brannan June 5, 2009
IAEA Report on Iran: Centrifuge and LEU increases; access to Arak reactor denied; no progress on outstanding issues
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire June 5, 2009
ISIS Statement on Washington Post Report from May 28, 2009 May 28, 2009
Commercial Satellite Imagery of Yongbyon Nuclear Site from May 26, 2009 May 27, 2009
Commercial Satellite Imagery of 2009 Nuclear Test Site in North Korea May 27, 2009
Iran’s Procurement of U.S. Military Aircraft Parts: Two case studies in illicit trade
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel May 21, 2009
Pakistan Expanding Plutonium Separation Facility Near Rawalpindi
David Albright and Paul Brannan May 19, 2009
Pakistan Expanding Dera Ghazi Khan Nuclear Site
David Albright , Paul Brannan and Robert Kelley May 19, 2009
Update on the Khushab Plutonium Production Reactor Construction Projects in Pakistan
David Albright and Paul Brannan April 23, 2009
Video Tour of Iranian Nuclear Sites April 10, 2009
Pre-Launch Satellite Imagery of the North Korean Missile at Musudan-ri April 8, 2009
Commercial Satellite Image Catches North Korean Missile During Flight April 6, 2009
New Satellite Image of Musudan-ri Missile Site in North Korea April 2, 2009
Missile at Musudan-ri site in North Korea Visible in Commercial Satellite Imagery March 29, 2009
Satellite Imagery of the Musudan-ri Missile Site in North Korea: Version 2 March 27, 2009
New Satellite Imagery of the Musudan-ri Missile Site in North Korea March 26, 2009
Nuclear Weapon Breakout Scenarios: Correcting the Record
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire and Paul Brannan March 18, 2009
Issue Brief on Official Statements regarding Iran March 12, 2009
Profitable and Low-Penalty: Illicit Procurement of Items with Nuclear Applications for Pakistan
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel February 27, 2009
Is Iran Running Out of Yellowcake?
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire and Paul Brannan February 11, 2009
Pakistan’s Illicit Procurement of Missile and Drone Equipment Using Multiple Financial Transaction
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 28, 2009
An Inside Look: India’s Procurement of Tributyl Phosphate (TBP) for its Unsafeguarded Nuclear Program
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 28, 2009
A Company’s Discretion Detects Large Iranian Valve Orders by Scrutinizing Items and End-Users Instead of Lists
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 28, 2009
Nuclear Iran: Not Inevitable
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 21, 2009
How Cooperation between a Company and Government Authorities Disrupted a Sophisticated Illicit Iranian Procurement
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 12, 2009
Detecting the Barrage Approach to Illicit Procurement
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 12, 2009
Iranian Entities’ Illicit Military Procurement Networks
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel January 12, 2009
2008
Has Iran Achieved a Nuclear Weapons Breakout Capability? Not Yet, But Soon.
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire, and Paul Brannan December 2, 2008
IAEA Report on Iran: Enriched Uranium Output Steady; Centrifuge Numbers Expected to Increase Dramatically; Arak Reactor Verification Blocked
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire, and Paul Brannan November 19, 2008
Arak Heavy Water Reactor Construction Progressing
David Albright and Paul Brannan November 13, 2008
Unprecedented Projected Nuclear Growth in the Middle East: Now is the Time to Create Effective Barriers to Proliferation
David Albright and Andrea Scheel November 12, 2008
Second Khushab Plutonium Production Reactor Nears Completion: Time to Reenergize Negotiations for a Verified Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty
David Albright and Paul Brannan September 18, 2008
Surprising Admission by India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
David Albright and Paul Brannan September 18, 2008
Indian Nuclear Export Controls and Information Security: Important Questions Remain
David Albright and Paul Brannan September 18, 2008
Centrifuge Operation Significantly Improving; Gridlock on Alleged Weaponization Issues Analysis of the September 15, 2008 IAEA Report on Iran
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Jacqueline Shire September 15, 2008
Can military strikes destroy Iran’s gas centrifuge program? Probably not.
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Jacqueline Shire August 7, 2008
Swiss Smugglers Had Advanced Nuclear Weapons Designs
David Albright June 16, 2008
May 26, 2008 IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran: Centrifuge Operation Improving and Cooperation Lacking on Weaponization Issues Rev. 2
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire, and Paul Brannan May 29, 2008
Inspecting Syria’s Al Kibar Reactor Site: A Technical Note
Ephraim Asculai May 12, 2008
The Al Kibar Reactor: Extraordinary Camouflage, Troubling Implications
David Albright and Paul Brannan May 12, 2008
Syria Update III: New Information About Al Kibar Reactor Site
David Albright and Paul Brannan April 24, 2008
Briefing notes from February 2008 IAEA meeting regarding Iran’s nuclear program April 11, 2008
Presidential Candidates on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Jelena Avramovic and Andrea Scheel February 22, 2008
IAEA Iran latest—A Balanced Safeguards Report
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire February 22, 2008
Iran Installing More Advanced Centrifuges at Natanz Pilot Enrichment Plant: Factsheet on the P-2/IR-2 Centrifuge
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire February 7, 2008
ISIS Statement Regarding “A Strike in the Dark” in the February 11 Issue of the New Yorker, by Seymour Hersh February 6, 2008
Slowly, but Surely, Pyongyang Is Moving
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire January 24, 2008
New Construction at Syrian Site January 14, 2008
North Korea’s Plutonium Production Declaration: A Starting Point for an Initial Verification Process
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Jacqueline Shire January 10, 2008
2007
November IAEA Report: Centrifuge File Not Closed; Natanz Enrichment Expands
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire November 15, 2007
A Witches’ Brew? Evaluating Iran’s Uranium-Enrichment Progress
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire November 1, 2007
Syria Update II: Syria Buries Foundation of Suspect Reactor Site October 26, 2007
Syria Update: Suspect Reactor Site Dismantled
David Albright , Paul Brannan and Jacqueline Shire October 25, 2007
Suspect Reactor Construction Site in Eastern Syria: The Site of the September 6 Israeli Raid?
David Albright and Paul Brannan October 24, 2007
Iran’s Nuclear Program: What the 2008 Presidential Candidates are Saying
Jelena Avramovic and Andrea Scheel October 17, 2007
Disabling DPRK Nuclear Facilities
David Albright and Paul Brannan October 1, 2007
IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran: Limited Progress in enrichment; controversial strategy on outstanding issues; continued defiance of UN Security Council
Jacqueline Shire and David Albright August 30, 2007
A Flawed IAEA-IRAN Agreement On Resolving Outstanding Issues
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire August 28, 2007
New Tunnel Construction at Mountain Adjacent to the Natanz Enrichment Complex Iran should allow IAEA inspections of tunnel facility
David Albright and Paul Brannan July 9, 2007
Pakistan Appears to be Building a Third Plutonium Production Reactor at Khushab Nuclear Site
David Albright and Paul Brannan June 21, 2007
IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran: Iran making progress but not yet reliably operating an enrichment plant
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire and Paul Brannan May 25, 2007
ISIS Imagery Brief: Further Construction at Arak 40 MW Heavy Water Reactor
David Albright and Paul Brannan March 20, 2007
Phased International Cooperation with North Korea’s Civil Nuclear Programs
David Albright March 19, 2007
Iran’s Centrifuges: How well are they working?
Jacqueline Shire and David Albright March 15, 2007
North Korea’s Alleged Large-Scale Enrichment Plant: Yet Another Questionable Extrapolation Based on Aluminum Tubes
David Albright February 23, 2007
The North Korean Plutonium Stock, February 2007
David Albright and Paul Brannan February 20, 2007
India’s Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Program: Growing Capacity for Military Purposes
David Albright and Susan Basu January 18, 2007
Chashma Nuclear Site in Pakistan with Possible Reprocessing Plant
David Albright and Paul Brannan January 18, 2007
2006
India’s Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Program: Growing Capacity for Military Purposes
David Albright and Susan Basu December 1, 2006
Latest IAEA Report on Iran: Continued Progress on Cascade Operations, No New Cooperation with IAEA
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire November 14, 2006
Iran’s Nuclear Program: Flawed House Intelligence Committee Report Should Be Amended or Withdrawn
Jacqueline Shire and David Albright November 9, 2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: North Korean Site After Nuclear Test
David Albright and Paul Brannan October 17, 2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: Suspected North Korean Nuclear Test Site
David Albright and Paul Brannan October 10, 2006
Update on the Construction of the New, Large Khushab Reactor
David Albright and Paul Brannan October 4, 2006
Iran’s NPT Violations – Numerous and Possibly On-Going?
Jacqueline Shire and David Albright September 29, 2006
Iran’s Response to the EU: Confused but Sporadically Hopeful
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire September 11, 2006
Iran’s Centrifuge Program: Defiant but Delayed
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire August 31, 2006
IAEA Inspectors and Iran Clash Over Frequency of Inspections of Underground Facilities
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire August 23, 2006
Further Discussion of the New, Large Khushab Reactor
David Albright and Paul Brannan August 4, 2006
Commercial Satellite Imagery Suggests Pakistan is Building a Second, Much Larger Plutonium Production Reactor: Is South Asia Headed for a Dramatic Buildup in Nuclear Arsenals?
David Albright and Paul Brannan July 24, 2006
Better Carrots, Not Centrifuges: Why Iran must halt enrichment and How the U.S. can make it happen
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire July 10, 2006
When Could Iran Get the Bomb? July 1, 2006
The North Korean Plutonium Stock Mid-2006
David Albright and Paul Brannan June 26, 2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: Update on Construction Activities at Arak 40 MW Heavy Water Reactor
Paul Brannan and David Albright April 21, 2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: New Activities at the Esfahan and Natanz Nuclear Sites in Iran
Paul Brannan and David Albright April 14, 2006
Neither a Determined Proliferator Nor a Responsible Nuclear State: India’s Record Needs Scrutiny
David Albright and Susan Basu April 5, 2006
The Clock is Ticking, But How Fast?
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein March 27, 2006
India’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Stopping Illicit Procurement and the Leakage of Technical Centrifu
David Albright and Susan Basu March 10, 2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: New Satellite Image of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Complex in Iran January 13, 2006
Iran’s Next Steps: Final Tests and the Construction of a Uranium Enrichment Plant
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein January 12, 2006
Dismantling the DPRK’s Nuclear Weapons Program
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein January 1, 2006
2005
Separating Indian Military and Civilian Nuclear Facilities
David Albright and Susan Basu December 19, 2005
The North Korean Plutonium Stock Mid-2005 September 7, 2005
New Satellite Image of the Indian Gas Centrifuge Facility at Mysore September 1, 2005
Plutonium Watch: Tracking Plutonium Inventories
David Albright and Kimberly Kramer July 1, 2005
July 2005, Revised August 2005
Israeli Military Stocks of Fissile Material As of Late 2003 June 30, 2005
India’s Military Plutonium Inventory, End 2004
David Albright May 7, 2005
Iran Proposal to the EU Falls Far Short of an Acceptable Agreement May 3, 2005
Tunnel Entrance to the Underground Facilities at Natanz, Iran May 2, 2005
Images of 5 MWe Reactor at Yongbyon Nuclear Site from January and April 2005 April 18, 2005
ISIS Imagery Brief: Kalaye Electric March 31, 2005
Iran Should Grant the IAEA Further Access to Parchin March 24, 2005
New Satellite Images Show Tunnel Construction at Esfahan Facility in Iran February 17, 2005
Multilateral Nuclear Export Controls After the A.Q. Khan Network
Jacob Blackford January 13, 2005
Global Stocks of Nuclear Explosive Material – End 2003 (Updated 2005) January 1, 2005
2004
Fate of High Explosives at Al Qaqaa Still Unknown: Increasing Indications That Some Looted: Satellite photos show some bunkers that contained HMX were intact months after the fall of Baghdad
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein November 4, 2004
Stockpiles Still Growing
David Albright and Kimberly Kramer November 1, 2004
November/December 2004 - BAS
Countdown to Showdown November 1, 2004
South Korean Laser Isotope Separation Work: Open Source Scientific References October 5, 2004
The South Korean Laser Isotope Separation Experience
Mark Gorwitz, Special Contributor to ISIS Online October 5, 2004
Parchin: Possible Nuclear Weapons-Related Site in Iran
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein September 15, 2004
Asher Karni Case Shows Weakness in Nuclear Export Controls
Jacob Blackford September 8, 2004
Uncovering the Nuclear Black Market: Working Toward Closing Gaps in the International Nonproliferation Regime
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein July 2, 2004
Global Stocks of Nuclear Explosive Material – End 2003 (Updated 2004) June 30, 2004
ISIS Imagery Brief: Destruction at Iranian Site Raises New Questions About Iran’s Nuclear Activities June 17, 2004
Verifiable, Irreversible, Cooperative Dismantlement of the DPRK’s Nuclear Weapons Program
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein June 15, 2004
Prepared for the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management (INMM)45th Annual Meeting
Orlando, FL
Plutonium Watch: Tracking Plutonium Inventories
David Albright and Kimberly Kramer June 1, 2004
Separated Civil Plutonium Inventories: Current Status and Future Directions
David Albright April 1, 2004
ISIS Estimates of Unirradiated Fissile Material in De Facto Nuclear Weapon States April 1, 2004
Libya’s Gas Centrifuge Procurement: Much Remains Undiscovered
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein March 1, 2004
The Centrifuge Connection
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein March 1, 2004
Documents Indicate A.Q. Khan Offered Nuclear Weapon Designs to Iraq in 1990: Did He Approach Other Countries?
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein February 4, 2004
2003
Iraq’s Aluminum Tubes: Separating Fact from Fiction
David Albright December 5, 2003
Focus on the 50MWe Reactor October 15, 2003
Iran, Player or Rogue? September 1, 2003
Imagery Brief of Activities at the Yongbyon Site
Corey Hinderstein July 1, 2003
Prepared for a series of workshops in the summer of 2003
U.S. Allies Were Not Persuaded By U.S. Assertions on Iraq WMD June 9, 2003
Draft UN Resolution on Iraq Lacks Plan for Return of International Weapons Inspections and Long-Term Arms Monitoring
Corey Hinderstein and David Albright May 16, 2003
Here’s the Way to Find The Weapons
David Albright May 11, 2003
Furor over Fuel May 1, 2003
Internationalizing the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction: Part 2
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein April 16, 2003
Nuclear Revelations Show Need for Resuming International Control of the Tuwaitha Site
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein April 11, 2003
Internationalizing the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein March 26, 2003
The Iranian Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Plant at Natanz: Drawing from Commercial Satellite Images
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein March 14, 2003
The CIA’s Aluminum Tubes’ Assessment: Is the Nuclear Case Going Down the Tubes?
David Albright March 10, 2003
March 2003 Satellite Photos of Yongbyon Facilities March 1, 2003
A Bomb for the Ummah?
David Albright and Holly Higgins March 1, 2003
Iran at a Nuclear Crossroads
David Albright February 20, 2003
Why Did Iraq Increase the Diameter of Its Missiles?: Is Iraq close to being able to deliver a nuclear weapon?
David Albright February 4, 2003
Fast Facts - North Korea’s Current and Future Nuclear Weapons Capabilities
David Albright January 15, 2003
North Korea’s Current and Future Plutonium and Nuclear Weapon Stocks
David Albright January 15, 2003
2002
Iran Building Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities: International Transparency Needed
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein December 12, 2002
Overreacting to Accusations of Spying on Iraq: Making Appropriate Arrangements for Information Sharing
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein November 25, 2002
Sorting out conflicting reports of North Korean intentions November 18, 2002
Now for the Hard Part: Implementing Strengthened Inspections in Iraq
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein November 14, 2002
Five Leading Nuclear Experts Support the “Iraqi Scientists Liberation Act of 2002” October 22, 2002
Aluminum Tubing Is an Indicator of an Iraqi Gas Centrifuge Program: But Is the Tubing Specifically for Centrifuges? October 9, 2002
Background on Al Furat as Envisioned by Iraq in the 1980s
David Albright October 8, 2002
Background on the Iraqi Facility Shown in White House Photos Released October 7, 2002
David Albright October 8, 2002
Intrusive Inspections in the 1990s Means Iraq Lacks a Nuclear Arsenal Now
David Albright October 7, 2002
Understanding the Recent Draft US/British Security Council Resolution on Iraq
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein October 3, 2002
Iraq’s Programs to Make Highly Enriched Uranium and Plutonium for Nuclear Weapons Prior to the Gulf
David Albright October 1, 2002
Back to Basics: Achieving Effective Inspections in Iraq
Corey Hinderstein and David Albright September 16, 2002
Is the Activity at Al Qaim Related to Nuclear Efforts?
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein September 10, 2002
2002 Images of Facilities at Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center March 1, 2002
Does Al Qaeda Have Nuclear Materials? Doubtful, But…
David Albright, Corey Hinderstein, and Holly Higgins March 1, 2002
North Korea: It’s Taking Too Long February 1, 2002
Al Qaeda Nuclear and Conventional Explosive Documents: CNN - ISIS Collaboration January 24, 2002
Bin Laden and the Bomb
David Albright, Kathryn Buehler and Holly Higgins January 1, 2002
2001
Secrets, What Secrets? Terrorists Might Exploit Pakistan’s Cavalier Attitude Toward Nuclear Inform
David Albright December 1, 2001
Securing Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Complex
David Albright October 25, 2001
South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Storage Vault
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein October 4, 2001
Securing Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal: Principles for Assistance
David Albright, Kevin O'Neill and Corey Hinderstein October 4, 2001
The Iraqi Maze: Searching for a Way Out
David Albright & Kevin O'Neill October 1, 2001
The Nonproliferation Review, Fall/Winter 2001
The First Casualty of the War on Terrorism Must not be Pakistan: Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Must Not Fall into Terrorists' Hands September 18, 2001
Nuclear Terrorism: The Unthinkable Nightmare
David Albright, Kevin O’Neill and Corey Hinderstein September 13, 2001
South Africa’s Nuclear Weaponization Efforts : Success on a Small-Scale
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein September 13, 2001
Algeria: Big deal in the desert?
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein May 1, 2001
Evaluation of a 1-Meter Satellite Image of the Algerian Reactor Site May 1, 2001
Stay the Course on North Korea
Holly Higgins, Research Analyst March 7, 2001
Ensuring Nuclear Transparency on the Korean Peninsula: What is an Adequate Approach
David Albright January 1, 2001
2000
Pelindaba and Valindaba Facilities, South Africa
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein October 26, 2000
Secretary Albright’s Visit to North Korea October 20, 2000
India’s and Pakistan’s Fissile Material and Nuclear Weapons Inventories, end of 1999
David Albright, President October 11, 2000
Plutonium Watch: Tracking Civil Plutonium Inventories: End of 1999
David Albright and Mark Gorwitz October 1, 2000
Images of Algeria’s Nuclear Site at Ain Oussera July 6, 2000
Separated Civil Plutonium Inventories: Current and Future Directions
David Albright June 1, 2000
Making the Grade 2000: Second Annual Review of Fissile Material Control Efforts
Kevin O'Neill, Deputy Director April 25, 2000
Fissile Material Control Scorecard 2000
Analysis of IKONOS Imagery of the Newly-Identified Heavy Water Plant at Khushab, Pakistan March 16, 2000
Analysis of IKONOS Imagery of the Plutonium Production Reactor at Khushab, Pakistan March 16, 2000
Deadly Unknowns about Iraq’s Biological Weapons Program
Milton Leitenberg February 9, 2000
Status Report: Civil Plutonium Transparency and the Plutonium Management Guidelines
David Albright and Lauren Barbour January 1, 2000
1999 Scorecard on Fissile Material Controls January 1, 2000
1999
Comparison of Drafts of Comprehensive Security Council Resolution on Iraq
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein December 14, 1999
Timeline for the Suspension of Sanctions under the December 9, 1999 Security Council Draft Resolution on Iraq December 9, 1999
Reestablishing UN Security Council Weapons Inspections in Iraq: Piecing Together a Coherent Picture
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein December 2, 1999
Iraq’s Efforts to Acquire Information about Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Related Technologies from the United States
David Albright and Kevin O'Neill November 12, 1999
India and Pakistan’s Fissile Material and Nuclear Weapons Inventory, end of 1998
David Albright, President October 27, 1999
Light Water Reactors and Nuclear Weapons in North Korea: Let’s Be Fair With Our Comparisons
David Albright and Holly Higgins October 27, 1999
What happened in Japan: The Tokaimura Criticality Event
David Albright October 1, 1999
A series of reports on the Rocky Flats accidents
The Lessons Regarding Nuclear Secrecy at Rocky Flats August 26, 1999
The Lessons of Nuclear Secrecy at Rocky Flats: Press Release August 26, 1999
The Lessons of Nuclear Secrecy at Rocky Flats
David Albright and Kevin O'Neill August 26, 1999
Chronology and Press Reports of the Tokaimura Criticality June 1, 1999
“Crying Wolf” About the Iraqi Nuclear Weapons Threat
Kevin O'Neill, Deputy Director May 14, 1999
Developing Comparisons for Risks Due to Plutonium Inhalation and Carbon Tetrachloride Exposure
David Albright and Lauren Barbour May 14, 1999
Report to Colorado Department of Health: Description of Work Obtaining Satellite Photos of the Rocky Flats Plant
Corey Gay Hinderstein May 10, 1999
Plutonium Watch: Separated Inventories of Civil Plutonium Continue to Grow
David Albright and Lauren Barbour May 1, 1999
Development of the Al-Tuwaitha Site: What If the Public or the IAEA had Overhead Imagery?
David Albright, Corey Gay, and Khidhir Hamza April 26, 1999
What about Yugoslavia’s Nuclear Explosive Material?
David Albright, President April 21, 1999
1998
Military Strikes in Iraq: Inspections, Sanctions Must Stay in Place to Prevent Nuclear Weapons Program Reconstitution December 17, 1998
New Details Emerge About Pakistan’s First Nuclear Test Site
David Albright, Corey Gay Hinderstein and Frank Pabian December 1, 1998
Iraq’s Reconstitution of Its Nuclear Weapons Program
David Albright and Khidhir Hamza October 1, 1998
An Insider’s Story October 1, 1998
Iraqi Nukes September 9, 1998
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty September 4, 1998
Talks to begin on important nuclear non-proliferation, disarmament treaty August 11, 1998
The shots heard ‘round the world
David Albright July 1, 1998
ISIS Technical Assessment: Pakistan’s Efforts to Obtain Unsafeguarded Plutonium are Nearing Fruition
David Albright June 1, 1998
ISIS Technical Assessment: Pakistan’s Stock of Weapon-Grade Uranium
David Albright and Kevin O'Neill June 1, 1998
Additional February 1998 KVR-1000 images of Probably May 30, 1998 Nuclear Test Site May 30, 1998
Pakistan’s May 30, 1998 Nuclear Test Site: Preliminary Findings May 30, 1998
Ground Images of May 28, 1998 Test Site May 28, 1998
Satellite Images of May 28, 1998 Test Site May 28, 1998
India’s Nuclear Tests: Will They Open New Possibilities for Iraq to Exploit? May 28, 1998
Preventing a South Asian Arms Race
Kevin O'Neill, Deputy Director May 20, 1998
Fact Sheet: India and Pakistan—Current and Potential Nuclear Arsenals
David Albright May 13, 1998
Masters of Deception
David Albright May 1, 1998
Documents prepared for the 1998 Preparatory Committee for the NPT Review Conference April 23, 1998
Iraq: Resettle the scientists
David Albright & Kevin O'Neill January 1, 1998
Taiwan: Nuclear Nightmare Averted
David Albright and Corey Gay January 1, 1998
ISIS Estimates of Pakistan’s Weapons Grade Uranium 1995-2000 January 1, 1998
Comparison of Indian and Pakistani Current and Potential Nuclear Arsenals January 1, 1998
ISIS Estimates of Pakistan’s Weapons Grade Uranium 1995-2000 January 1, 1998
1997
Taiwan’s Former Nuclear Bomb Program Revealed December 19, 1997
United Nations Security Council should Require Iraq to Allow Iraqi Nuclear Scientists to Leave the Country without Fear of Reprisal
David Albright and Kevin O'Neill November 3, 1997
Let the Iraqi Nuclear Scientists Leave: Science group says current Iraqi crisis shows need to put tougher conditions in place
David Albright and Kevin O'Neill November 3, 1997
A Flash from the Past
David Albright and Corey Gay November 1, 1997
The Nuclear Terrorist Threat
Kevin O'Neill August 1, 1997
1996
Taiwan Political Timeline January 1, 1996
1995
An Iranian bomb? July 1, 1995
Has Iraq come clean at last?
David Albright and Robert Kelley January 1, 1995
Jury Rigged, But Working
David Albright and Kevin O'Neill January 1, 1995
1994
North Korean Plutonium Production
David Albright September 1, 1994
How Much Plutonium Does North Korea Have?
David Albright September 1, 1994
North Korea’s Corroding Fuel
David Albright August 1, 1994
South Africa and the Affordable Bomb
David Albright July 1, 1994
The North Korean Nuclear Program: Unresolved Iussues
David Albright and Kevin O'Neill June 6, 1994
South Africa’s Secret Nuclear Weapons
David Albright May 1, 1994
Israeli Friends: Secret South African - Israeli Nuclear Cooperation May 1, 1994
1993
Engineer for Hire
David Albright December 1, 1993
Building a Corporate Nonproliferation Ethic
David Albright and Peter Gray June 1, 1993
The first ISIS Report. This report discusses the activities of Leybold AG with Iraq prior to the Persian Gulf War, and the subsequent efforts by Leybold to implement internal compliance principles to govern exports of sensitive items.
A Proliferation Primer
David Albright June 1, 1993
South Africa: The ANC and the Atom Bomb
David Albright and Mark Hibbs April 1, 1993
1992
India’s Silent Bomb
David Albright and Mark Hibbs September 1, 1992
Iraq’s shop-till-you-drop nuclear program
David Albright and Mark Hibbs July 1, 1992
Pakistan’s bomb: Out of the closet
David Albright and Mark Hibbs July 1, 1992
Photos of the Destruction of al-Atheer June 15, 1992
Iraq: It’s all over at Al Atheer
David Albright and Mark Hibbs June 1, 1992
Yongbyong Nuclear Site Ground Imagery May 1, 1992
Spotlight Shifts to Iran March 1, 1992
Iraq’s bomb: Blueprints and artifacts
David Albright and Mark Hibbs January 1, 1992
1991
Iraq: News the Front Page Missed
David Albright and Mark Hibbs October 1, 1991
Iraq’s nuclear hide-and-seek
David Albright and Mark Hibbs September 1, 1991
Iraq and the bomb: Were they even close?
David Albright and Mark Hibbs March 1, 1991
Hyping the Iraqi bomb
David Albright and Mark Hibbs March 1, 1991
South Africa flirts with the NPT
David Albright and Tom Zamora January 1, 1991
1988
A Footnote to the History of Our Country’s “Nuclear Energy” Policies
Dr. Ta-you Wu May 1, 1988