[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.

[lesser_satan]

This is old news.

I know. I was just amazed to see the NYT bring it up in any way, shape, or form.