Lit fuse - proliferation finance & compliance for containment

North Korea, already nuclear, is working on ever more powerful weapons; Iran remains set on acquiring the capability; and both may, with others, be building chemical and biological arsenals: the stakes could not be higher and so funds are on offer to match. The incentive to circumvent export controls and sanctions, often with state support, and the vast range of dual-use components in scope make, writes Paul Cochrane, for the most complex investigative and preventive threatscape.

North Korea, already nuclear, is working on ever more powerful weapons; Iran remains set on acquiring the capability; and both may, with others, be building chemical and biological arsenals: the stakes could not be higher and so funds are on offer to match. The incentive to circumvent export controls and sanctions, often with state support, and the vast range of dual-use components in scope make, writes Paul Cochrane, for the most complex investigative and preventive threatscape.