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Country Assessments: India and Pakistan

2007

Pakistan Appears to be Building a Third Plutonium Production Reactor at Khushab Nuclear Site
By David Albright and Paul Brannan
June 21, 2007

ISIS Report: Chashma Nuclear Site in Pakistan with Possible Reprocessing Plant, David Albright and Paul Brannan, January 18, 2007.

ISIS Report: India’s Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Program: Growing Capacity for Military Purposes, David Albright and Susan Basu, January 18, 2007.

2006

ISIS Report: India's Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Program: Growing Capacity for Military Purposes, David Albright and Susan Basu, December 8, 2006.

Update on the Construction of the New, Large Khushab Reactor, David Albright and Paul Brannan, October 4, 2006

Further Discussion of the New, Large Khushab Reactor, David Albright and Paul Brannan, August 4, 2006

ISIS Report: "Commercial Satellite Imagery Suggests Pakistan is Building a Second, Much Larger Plutonium Production Reactor at Khushab," David Albright and Paul Brannan, July 24, 2006.

Issue Brief: "Neither a Determined Proliferator Nor a Responsible Nuclear State: India's Record Needs Scrutiny," David Albright and Susan Basu, April 5, 2006.

Report: "India's Gas Centrifuge Program: Stopping Illicit Procurement and the Leakage of Technical Centrifuge Know-How," by David Albright and Susan Basu, March 10, 2006.

2005

Report, "Separating Indian Military and Civilian Nuclear Facilities," by David Albright and Susan Basu, December 19, 2005.

Testimony before the House Committee on International Relations Hearing on the US-India “Global Partnership” and its Impact on Non-Proliferation By David Albright, October 26, 2005.

New Satellite Image of the Indian gas centrifuge facility at Mysore, posted September 2005.

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.

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

  • Click here to read the english translation of the Iraqi memo (will open in .pdf format)

2003

A bomb for the Ummah, by David Albright and Holly Higgins, appearing in the March/April 2003 edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

2001

October 31 --"Securing Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Complex," by David Albright (Paper commissioned and sponsored by the Stanley Foundation for the 42nd Strategy for Peace Conference, Strategies for Regional Security (South Asia Working Group)

October 4 --"Securing Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal: Principles for Assistance," an ISIS Issue Brief by David Albright, Kevin O'Neill and Corey Hinderstein [*.html version]

September 18 --

"The First Casualty of the War on Terrorism must not be Pakistan: Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons must not fall into Terrorists' Hands," ISIS Press Release [*.pdf version] [*.html version]

2000

October 15 --India's and Pakistan's Fissile Material and Nuclear Weapons Inventories, end of 1999 by David Albright. This is an update to the assessment that was completed in Ocotber 1999 and placed on the ISIS website earlier this year.

India and Pakistan's Fissile Material and Nuclear Weapons Inventory, end of 1998 by David Albright. Prepared in October 1999, a version of this assessment is soon to be published in Joseph Cirincione (ed.) Repairing the Regime: Preventing the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction, (New York, NY: Routledge and the Carnegie Institute for International Peace, 2000).

1998

July/August, 1998 -- "The shots heard 'round the world." By David Albright. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

June 1, 1998 --ISIS Technical Assessment: Pakistan's Stock of Weapon-Grade Uranium by David Albright and Kevin O'Neill. For a copy of a related press release, go here.

June 1, 1998-- ISIS Technical Assessment: Pakistan's Efforts to Obtain Unsafeguarded Plutonium are Nearing Fruition By David Albright. For a copy of a related press release, go here.

May 28, 1998-- India's Nuclear Tests: Will They Open New Possibilities for Iraq to Exploit?

May 20, 1998-- Preventing a South Asian Arms Race. By Kevin O'Neill. For a copy of a related press release, go here.

May 13, 1998-- Press Release -- Pakistan's Momentous Decision.

May 13, 1998-- Fact Sheet: India and Pakistan--Current and Potential Nuclear Arsenals. By David Albright.

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1997 or earlier

September, 1992-- "India's Silent Bomb." By David Albright and Mark Hibbs. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

July/August, 1992 -- "Pakistan's bomb: Out of the closet." By David Albright and Mark Hibbs. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.