[lesser_satan]

In 1991, the research began focusing more intensely on uranium, the other main path to building nuclear weapons. This came about when United Nations inspectors discovered, after the gulf war, that the United States and its allies had vastly underestimated Iraq's progress on developing a uranium bomb.

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[kcmom]

they discovered it before they didnt discover it....

[wideminded]

This came about when United Nations inspectors discovered, after the gulf war, that the United States and its allies had vastly underestimated Iraq's progress on developing a uranium bomb.

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This is old news. After the first Gulf War, the inspectors discovered that Saddam had had most of the technology and plans he needed to build an atomic bomb. Supposedly they dismantled or destroyed everything he had. The question was whether he tried to reconstruct this in the next decade.