In April 2001, ISIS co-sponsored two seminars in Russia to discuss case studies of Western nuclear export control failures. A key focus of the seminars were the experiences of several German technicians who provided technology, materials, items and "know-how" to Iraq's gas centrifuge and nuclear weapons programs in the 1980s. The Russian co-sponsors of the seminars were the Center for Export Controls (CEC) in Moscow, and the Export Control Laboratory of the Institute for Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE) in Obninsk.

A second workshop in the series at Obninsk was held in April 2002 which focused on the development of strengthened internal compliance systems.

Announcing...

"Roadmap to Responsible Export Controls: Learning from the Past"

ISIS's new website with case studies and resource materials. Click here to go www.exportcontrols.org.

2008

Swiss Smugglers Had Advanced Nuclear Weapons Designs
By David Albright
June 16, 2008

2007

Finding Innovative Ways to Detect and Thwart Illicit Nuclear Trade
2007 Carnegie International Nonproliferation Conference
by David Albright, Matti Tarvainen and Ralf Wirtz
June 26, 2007
Event Transcript
Tarvainen Slides
Event Photos

2006

2005

September-- ISIS Report: Multilateral Nuclear Export Controls After the A.Q. Khan Network by Jacob Blackford, posted 9 September 2005 (in .pdf format)

2004

ISIS Issue Brief: Documents Indicate A.Q. Khan Offered Nuclear Weapon Designs to Iraq in 1990: Did He Approach Other Countries?
By David Albright and Corey Hinderstein
February 4, 2004

September-- ISIS Analysis: Asher Karni Case Shows Weakness in Nuclear Export Controls, By Jacob Blackford, September 18, 2004

Uncovering the Nuclear Black Market: Working Toward Closing Gaps in the International Nonproliferation Regime
Presented at the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management Annual Conference 2004.

2002

June-- "Nuclear Non Proliferation Concerns and Export Controls in Russia" Testimony by David Albright to the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

April--The following papers were delivered at a seminar held with the IPPE Export Control Laboratory:

• Creation of Leybold's Internal Compliance System by David Albright;
• Realization and Implementation of Export Regulations Tightened since 1990/92 in Export-Oriented Companies in Germany by Dr. Hans Kolb;
• Germany's Export Control Law in the New Millennium by Michael Rietz.

2001

December 20--Index of Curricula Vitae of individuals who contributed to ISIS's understanding of how Iraq circumvented Western export controls. Additional CV's will be added as they become available.

April-- The following papers were delivered at the seminars held with the CEC and the IPPE Export Control Laboratory:

• Preventing Illegal Exports: Learning from Case Studies, by David Albright;
• Preventing Illegal Exports: Learning from Case Studies, Part II, by David Albright;
• Personal Reflections on Cooperation with Iraq in the 1980s, prepared by Karl Heinz Schaab and delivered by Kevin O'Neill;
• German Companies, Deliveries to Areas of Tension and Violations of the Foreign Trade Law, by Michael Rietz (Schaab's attorney); and
• Iraq's Efforts to Acquire Information about Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Related Technologies from the United States, by Kevin O'Neill.

1999

December --Dual-use exports, or a twilight business versus systemic failures of export controls by Michael Rietz

1993

June --Building a Corporate Non-Proliferation Ethic, 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.