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.

• The Dirty Dozen
• The Dirty Dozen Annex
• About the Project
• The Nuclear Industry
• The Aerospace Industry
  • Space Weapon Technology
  • Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space
• News and Special Features
• Also See

The Dirty Dozen
Printable PDF fact sheets are available for seven of the Dirty Dozen corporations.
(See the corporations in bold below.)

Alliant Techsystems
Bechtel Corporation
Boeing
BAE Systems
British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL)
General Dynamics
IBM
Lockheed Martin
Mitsubishi
Northrop Grumman
Raytheon
Siemens
University of California

The Dirty Dozen Annex
AeroAstro
Aerojet
Aerospace Corporation
Analytical Graphics, Inc.
Andrews Space
Ball Aerospace
Booz Allen Hamilton
Carlyle Group
Computer Sciences Corporation
Davidson Technologies
Honeywell
L-3 Communications
Microcosm, Inc.
MicroSat Systems, Inc.
Miltec Corporation
Octant Technologies
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Rafael Aramament Development Authority Ltd.
Schafer Corporation
Science Applications International Cooperation (SAIC)
SI International
Space Development Corporation (SpaceDev)
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited