Frequently Asked Questions

The Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control publishes the Risk Report. Wisconsin Project founder Gary Milhollin conceptualized and created the Risk Report. He served as its Executive Editor until retiring as the Project’s Executive Director in 2011. Since then, Valerie Lincy has served as Risk Report Executive Editor.

Senior Research Associates John P. Caves III and Treston Chandler are jointly responsible for managing Risk Report content. John focuses on Iranian entities supporting proliferation and Russia’s military and missile sectors. Treston focuses on China’s missile and military programs as well as North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction programs and the entities helping North Korea evade international sanctions. He also conducts data modeling and visualization work using Risk Report data and manages IT-related tasks for the database. Research Assistant Jonathan Gerstein monitors changes to global restricted party lists and U.S. and international export control regulations and updates this content in the Risk Report.

Deputy Director Meghan Peri Crimmins is responsible for sanctions and export control-related content in the Risk Report. She also oversees outreach and publicity for the Risk Report.

Valerie, John, Treston, Jonathan, Meghan, and Research Associate JP Imperiale engage foreign government officials in how to use the Risk Report as part of export control capacity building on behalf of the U.S. State Department.

The Risk Report has benefited from the contribution of former analysts, including Matthew Godsey, Jonathan McLaughlin, Jordan Ritchie, Arthur Shulman, and Gerard White.

In some 40 countries, government officials in licensing, customs, law enforcement, policy-making, and intelligence roles rely upon the Risk Report on a daily basis to help make decisions of strategic importance. Some of these countries receive access to the database through support from the U.S. State Department. The Wisconsin Project has worked with the State Department for over a decade to conduct training and provide Risk Report access to countries, in order to build their strategic trade control capacity.

Companies were the original audience for the Risk Report and continue to rely on the database to screen their supply chain, customers, and clients. Companies have come to realize the potential damage that can come from unwittingly doing business with a restricted party or an entity linked to a dangerous weapon program. The “bare minimum” version of due diligence is not enough to protect companies from such transactions, particularly when weighing costs of a bad decision: hefty fines and reputational damage.

Learn more about Risk Report users on the Our Users page.

The Risk Report is available to subscribers online, where content is updated on a monthly basis.   Monthly or bimonthly data exports containing a selection of identifier information fields from entity records are also available.

Subscriptions to the Risk Report vary in price based on the type of access and the number of logins required by each subscriber.  For detailed pricing information, please navigate to our Subscriptions page.

The Risk Report contains a wide range of information related to proliferation and strategic trade controls, including profiles of some 5,000 risky entities located around the world, dual-use commodity descriptions, official restricted party lists, U.S. export administration regulations, and multilateral export control regimes.  The database also contains expert analysis on programs of proliferation concern in countries such as Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan.  See the Database Content page for more information about what is available in the Risk Report.