The Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal was a Cold War controversy that arose when some member nations of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) illegally exported to the Soviet Union machine tools that could be used in combination with the Kongsbergnumerical control (NC) devices made in Norway, in violation of the CoCom agreement.[1]
Details
The machine tool that combined with the Norwegian numerical control (NC) device and was exported to the Soviet Union. (based on the Norwegian Police Service report.)
Year
Kongsberg company The type of the NC device
Machine tool manufacturers
Country
The number of the spindles of the simultaneous control
^Wende A. Wrubel "The Toshiba-Kongsberg Incident: Shortcomings Of COCOM, And Recommendations For Increased Effectiveness Of Export Controls To The East Bloc" American University Journal of International Law and Policy 4(24) 241-273 (1989) [1]