• Global Fissile Material Inventories
• Countries that have sought nuclear weapons

Highlights of the ISIS Web Site

ISIS Imagery Brief: New Satellite Images Show Tunnel Construction at Esfahan Facility in Iran, February, 17, 2005.

2004

ISIS Report: Global Fissile Material Inventories

Index of Presentations on the Verified Irreversible, Cooperative Dismantlement of North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program

ISIS Issue Brief:Libya's Gas Centrifuge Procurement: Much Remains Undiscovered, By David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, March 1, 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)

Refreezing Yongbyon: Developing an Effective Approach, by David Albright, prepared for a series of workshops in the summer of 2003. [Link opens file in .pdf format.]

Imagery Brief of Activities at the Yongbyon Site, by Corey Hinderstein, prepared for a series of workshops in the summer of 2003. [Link opens file in .pdf format.]

Iran, Player or Rogue?, by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, appearing in the September/October 2003 edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. [Link opens file in .pdf format.]

Transcript: "Building Nuclear Confidence on the Korean Peninsula
Proceedings of the July 23-24, 2001 Workshop"
Sponsored by the Technology Center for Nuclear Control and the Korea Institute for National Unification

Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle
Read about ISIS's publication, which describes the decade-long effort to ensure that North Korea does not have nuclear weapons.

• "Nuclear Non-Proliferation Concerns and Export Controls in Russia" by David Albright (Testimony before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, June 6 2002).
• "Bin Laden and the Bomb,"by David Albright, Kathryn Buehler, and Holly Higgins. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2002.
• Al Qaeda Nuclear and Conventional Explosive Documents: CNN - ISIS Collaboration
• "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 25-27, 2001, Airlie Conference Center, Warrenton, Virginia.)
• "Securing Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal: Priciples for Assistance," an ISIS Issue Brief by David Albright, Kevin O'Neill and Corey Hinderstein, October 4, 2001. [*.html version]
• "South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Storage Vault," an ISIS Issue Brief by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, October 4, 2001. [*.html version]
• "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, September 18, 2001 [*.pdf version] (requires Adobe Acrobat reader)[*.html version]
• "Nuclear Terrorism: The Unthinkable Nightmare," ISIS Issue Brief by David Albright, Kevin O'Neill and Corey Hinderstein, September 13, 2001 [*.pdf version] (requires Adobe Acrobat reader)[*.html version]
• "The Nuclear Terrorist Threat," by Kevin O'Neill, August, 1997 [*.pdf version] (requires Adobe Acrobat reader)
• "South Africa's Nuclear Weaponization Efforts: Success on a Small Scale", by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, September 13, 2001 [*.pdf version](requires Adobe Acrobat reader)

ISIS Issue Brief: Is the Activity at Al Qaim Related to Nuclear Efforts? by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, September 10, 2002.

Evaluation of a 1-meter satellite image of the Algerian nuclear reactor site.

Annotated images of Algeria's nuclear site at Ain Oussera.

An Overhead Tour: The Yongbyon Nuclear Site
by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein (On-line version of chapter 3 from Solving the North Korean Nuclear Puzzle).

ISIS Report: Global Fissile Material Inventories

Plutonium Watch--Tracking Civil Plutonium Inventories, by David Albright and Kimberly Kramer, June 2004

ISIS Issue Brief: Is the Activity at Al Qaim Related to Nuclear Efforts? by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein, September 10, 2002.

North Korea: It's Taking Too Long, by David Albright and Holly Higgins. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2002.

Press Release announcing the publication of "The Iraqi Maze: Searching for a Way Out," by David Albright and Kevin O'Neill, in the Fall-Winter 2001 issue of The Nonproliferation Review.

David Albright's remarks before the U.S.-Korea Working Group at the Brookings Institute.

Algeria: Big deal in the desert? from the May/June 2001 issue of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein.

Stay the Course on North Korea, a policy brief by Holly Higgins urging the Bush administration to continue to engage North Korea, particularly with respect to the 1994 Agreed Framework. The press release for the policy brief can be found here.

ISIS Press Release, March 1, 2001 -- 1979 South Atlantic "Flash" is Consistent with a Nuclear Explosion, According to Newly Declassified Energy Department DocumentsFindings dispute public explanation offered by Presidential panel at the time of the event.

Plutonium Watch--Tracking Civil Plutonium Inventories: End of 1999, by David Albright and Mark Gorwitz, October 2000

India's and Pakistan's Fissile Material and Nuclear Weapons Inventories, end of 1999, by David Albright

Iraq's Efforts to Acquire Information about Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Related Technologies from the United States
by David Albright and Kevin O'Neill. This report, prepared for the Department of Energy, summarizes a draft report authored by, and transcripts of interviews with, former Iraqi scientist Khidhir Hamza. The ISIS summary report was the subject of an article in the New York Times, which appeared on March 22, 2000.

Comparison of Drafts of Comprehensive Security Council Resolution on Iraq
by David Albright and Corey Hinderstein. A copy of UN Security Council Resolution 1284, which established UNMOVIC, can be found here.

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