Funny that it took an invasion into Iraq (1991) to get those documents. The antiwar movement told me they didn't have nuclear ambitions!
The Iraqis never took up the proposal, which they judged a scam or a sting operation. Western experts also questioned its authenticity."
They "flying tamper" designed for the Iraqi bomb was pinned as Khan's.
Re: "The Iraqis never took up the proposal"
Ahhhh! That's what the Iraqis said.
"How did Iraq progress so far so quickly? The inspectors found an Iraqi document describing an offer of design help from an agent of Pakistan. Iraq says it didn't accept the offer, but the inspectors think it did. Pakistan's latest design also uses a flying tamper. Regardless of how the Iraqis managed to do it, Saddam Hussein now possesses an efficient nuclear bomb design. The only thing he lacks is enough weapon-grade uranium to fuel it about sixteen kilograms per warhead."
PREPARED TESTIMONY OF GARY MILHOLLIN Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Law School and Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control to the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, March 22, 2000.