A number of news reports, including this report from the AP, indicate that the six nations negotiating a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing a second set of sanctions on Iran are close to an agreement. In December 2006, the Security…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) released on Friday its civil penalty information for February 2006 and reported that Varian, the Palo Alto scientific instrument giant, agreed to pay $114,958 to settle allegations that its Swiss and German subsidiaries…
In an earlier post about Nuclear Regulatory Commission controls on the export of americium-241, the isotope used in smoke alarms, we discussed a group of competency-challenged terrorists who were planning on building a dirty bomb from smoke alarms. In an…
At the same time that The Coalition for Security and Competitiveness called for a reform of DDTC procedures and policies, it also took aim at the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) with a separate report. The Coalition’s recommendations included…
Mounting tension between the export industry and DDTC became evident this week when a major coalition of the leading trade associations — The Coalition for Security and Competitiveness — sent a letter to President Bush requesting a meeting to discuss…