Evaluating WMD Proliferation Risks at the Nexus of Manufacturing Tools and Methods Used in DIY Communities

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Center on Contemporary Conflict
Dalnoki-Veress, Ferenc
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2016-10Metadata
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This project will investigate how access to additive and subtractive manufacturing
tools by do-it-yourself (DIY) communities decreases barriers for producing items
on the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)’s list of technologies controlled for export
in order to determine if new manufacturing tools embraced by DIY communities
may cause new proliferation risks. U.S. nonproliferation policy has principally
relied on the notion that limiting access to nuclear technology can contain the
proliferation of nuclear weapons and materials through export controls. Recently,
however, additive and subtractive computer-aided manufacturing tools have
become more widely accessible to DIY communities of entrepreneurs and
hobbyists—a development that could increase the number of companies and
individuals capable of fabricating export-controlled goods.
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Performer: Middlebury Institute of International
Studies (MIIS)
Project Lead: Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress
Project Cost: $102,253
FY16–17
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