About Iraq Watch

Iraq Watch was published by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control from 2000-2006.  As of August 2006, the site is no longer being updated on a regular basis.  However, Iraq Watch remains a valuable repository of information about Iraq’s past mass destruction weapon programs, the U.N. inspection process, the post-war weapon search, and remaining disarmament questions.

The world still needs to understand what happened in Iraq.  The site’s vast compendium of documents from official and private sources is the best existing record of the world's effort to understand and contain Iraq’s weapons programs. The site also contains the largest publicly available catalogue of dangerous items still unaccounted for in Iraq, and the site’s embedded databases describe the procurement networks Iraq used to build its weapon programs.  Iraq Watch therefore remains a powerful research tool.  Its information is essential to understand what Iraq's programs achieved and to insure that these dangerous achievements do not enhance proliferation elsewhere.

The Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control carries out research and public education designed to stop the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles. It is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that operates in Washington, D.C. under the auspices of the University of Wisconsin.

Click here to see the PRESS RELEASE that accompanied the 2001 launch of Iraq Watch.

Kelly Motz, the Associate Director of the Wisconsin Project, served as Editor and then Executive Editor of Iraq Watch. In addition, the site has benefited from the contributions of past and present researchers, including, Mrs. Diana Conway, Mr. Colin Dean, Ms. Valerie Lincy, Ms. Liz Palmer and Mr. Arthur Shulman.