Why the Dirty Dozen?

Reaching Critical Will teamed up with the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute to generate fact sheets, posters, and postcards that expose the complicity of corporations contributing to the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear weapon proliferation, and the associated social, cultural, and environmental harm. We researched and produced profiles of thirteen (a baker's dozen) corporations that are deeply involved in researching, developing, and manufacturing nuclear weapons and nuclear power. Our goal is to uncover and stigmatize the profit these corporations make while sustaining nuclear weapons and nuclear power at a time in history when human dialogue and ingenuity could make both obsolete. We want to provide basic information about these corporations that can serve as a foundation and impetus for informed action that challenges these corporations to revoke their membership in the nuclear club.

In 2007, Reaching Critical Will, the Arms Trade Resource Center, and the Stop the Merchants of Death Network of the War Resisters League collaborated to update these fact sheets.  Reaching Critical Will, in coordination with the Secure World Foundation, also produced additional reports on corporate involvement in the aerospace industry. This research covers the original Dirty Dozen corporations, and twenty-three other companies (the Dirty Dozen Annex) involved in developing missile defense and space weapon technology.

News and Special Features

Andrew Lichterman, "Next generation strategic weapons and the possibility of arms races to come," DisarmamentActivist.org, 7 April 2007.

Darwin BondGraham, "Is UC a University, or Just Another Military-Industrial Corporation?," Think Outside the Bomb, 2 April 2007.

Ray Acheson, "Attack on the ASAT Attack," DisarmamentActivist.org, 6 March 2007.

Hampton Stephens, "Pentagon's Plans for 'Space Control'," Defensetech.org, 26 January 2007.

Tom Engelhardt and Frida Berrigan, "How the Pentagon Stole the Future," LewRockwell.com, 11 January 2007.

Space Security 2006, Spacesecurity.org, July 2006.

Jeremy Singer, "Space-Based Missile Interceptors Could Yield Big Opportunity," Space News, 6 April 2006.

Matthew Hoey, "Military space systems: the road ahead," The Space Review, 27 February 2006.

Leonard David, "E-Weapons: Directed Energy Warfare In The 21st Century," Space.com, 11 January 2006.

Andrew M. Lichterman, "The Military Space Plane, Conventional ICBM’s, and the Common Aero Vehicle: Overlooked Threats of Weapons Delivered Through or From Space," Information Bulletin, Western States Legal Foundation, Fall 2002.

Theresa Hitchens, "Weapons in Space: Silver Bullet or Russian Roulette?," Center for Defense Information, 18 April 2002.

Frida Berrigan, "How are Weapons Manufacturers Faring in the War?," World Policy Insitute, 17 December 2001.

Frida Berrigan, "US Weapons Systems in Afghanistan," World Policy Instiute, 7 December 2001.

Carol Brouillet, "Deadly Connections: Corporate Globalization, Space and War," Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Conference, 13 May 2002.

Also See

Dirty Dozen poster

Mil-Corp Connexion - highlights WILPF's perceptions of the very dangerous connection between the Pentagon and those corporations profiting from weapons production.

Stop the Merchants of Death - uncovers the many ways war-profiteering corporations are literally calling the shots when it comes to deciding what weapons systems to buy, what countries to invade, and what foreign resources to seize. (SMOD is project of the War Resisters League.)

CorpWatch - provides news, investigations, and analysis critical of corporate power.

OpenSecrets.org - presents the actual political positions of the parties and candidates in US politics, and discloses how much campaign money they have raised - especially from corporate donations.

Center for Public Integrity - produces investigative journalism on issues of public concern, including defense contracts and corporate campaign contributions.

Center for Corporate Policy - works to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.

Conscience Canada - explains how to avoid having your federal income tax pay for the military.

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