Posted on 09/10/2002 9:09:26 AM PDT by vannrox
The following is a summary of a book review of a book that is no longer published, and is hard to obtain. It was written by the head of the Nuclear development program in Iraq, and describes in detail how they developed both Atomic weapons and Hydrogen Weapons. It describes the techniques and delivery systems, and applications for terror. A special areea of most interest is how Saddam planned to use them with Terrorists, and how he planned in 1991 to have the parts smuggled into the USA and assembled by sleeper cells.
Don't tell me about the law. The law is anything I write on a scrap of paper."
Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda
by Khidr Hamzah
SBN: 0684873869 Subtitle: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda with: Hamza, Khidhir Author: Stein, Jeff Publisher: Simon and Schuster Subject: International Security Subject: General Subject: Politics Subject: Nuclear weapons Subject: Iraq Subject: Persian gulf war, 1991 Subject: Nuclear arms control Subject: Biological weapons Subject: Military - Nuclear Warfare Subject: Military - Biological & Chemical Warfare Subject: Political Freedom & Security - International Secur Series: Lisa Drew Books (Paperback) Publication Date: November 2000 Binding: Trade Cloth Language: English Illustrations: Y Pages: 384 Dimensions: 954x647x112 127
Publisher Comments:
The Iraqi scientist who designed Baghdad's nuclear bomb tells how he did it in secret with the cynical help of U.S., French, German, and British suppliers and experts, and kept it hidden from U.N. inspectors after the Gulf War. Today, he says, Saddam Hussein is only months away from making a workable bomb and has every intention of using it.
Saddam Hussein
In 1994, after twenty years developing Iraq's atomic weapon, Dr. Khidhir Hamza made a daring escape to warn the CIA of Saddam's nuclear ambitions...only to be ridiculed and turned away! After a harrowing journey across three continents with Iraqi agents on his trail, Hamza finally came in from the cold at the U.S. embassy in Hungary. Now he tells a frightening story that U.S. officials have finally come to believe: that Saddam is still feverishly at work on the bomb and, if pushed to the wall, will use it.
Dr. Hamza also presents a startling, unprecedented portrait of Saddam himself his drunken rages, his women, his fear of germs, and his cold-blooded murder of underlings. A former resident of the presidential palace, Hamza is the only defector who has lived to write a firsthand, intimate portrait of the Iraqi inner circle, its spies and hit men, and their brutal chief.
Saddam's Bombmaker is also a saga of one man's journey through the circles of hell. Educated at MIT and Florida State University, dedicated to a life of peaceful teaching in America, Dr. Hamza relates how the regime ordered him home, seduced him into a pampered life as an atomic energy official, and forced him to design a bomb. The price of refusal was torture.
As the father of the Iraqi bomb, Dr. Hamza designed a device from scratch with the help of World War Twoera blueprints from America's Los Alamos labs, all the while planning an escape. Privately, he and his colleagues believed they could procrastinate long enough to outlive Saddam. But the dictator outmaneuvered them, whipping the scientists into a crash program to build a crude bomb that could be dropped on Israel. Had U.S. and Allied forces not quickly mobilized for Desert Storm, Dr. Hamza relates, Saddam may well have succeeded; except for sufficient uranium, the device was ready. It still is.
Dr. Hamza's tale of his escape, his first bungled contact with CIA agents, and his flight abroad will keep readers turning pages toward a climax worthy of a well-crafted spy thriller.
Along the way, he reveals:
The West's "don't ask, just sell" attitude toward Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological programs as long as it was fighting Iran.
How Iraq tested biological and chemical weapons on human subjects.
How the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) tried to recruit Dr. Hamza to make a bomb.
Baghdad's secret program to break into U.S. and other foreign computer systems.
Saddam's Bombmaker is not only a shocking political and scientific exposé -- it is a riveting adventure tale.
Synopsis: The defector once responsible for Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program reveals for the first time what the CIA and Iraq desperately want to keep hidden -- that Saddam Hussein is devastatingly close to manufacturing nuclear weapons and has every intention of using them. Photos.
Synopsis: This memoir by a physicist who developed weapons for Saddam Hussein and who defected in 1994 provides an insider's view of Iraq's program to develop weapons of mass destruction--as well as anecdotal evidence of that leader's psychology. He also sheds light on the role of the West in supplying Saddam with materials, weapons, and expertise.*
Thanx for the info.
No, it isn't. It's available from many sources, in paperback no less. I bought my copy a couple of months ago. A must-read.
Tell Campion and A VastRightWing Conspirator that.
Did he really? Because I know we rolled neutron bomb theatre weapons into Europe during the early Reagan years. Remember the missle launchers in Great Britain?
The neutron bomb found its mission in the role of anti tank weapon. The concept was to target the Red Army tanks as they rolled into Germany. Neutron warheads would irradiate the crews, penetrating the tank armor. But the blast affect of neutron warheads would be much less than standard nuclear warheads, thus limiting fallout and damage to the surrounding cities and towns of West Germany. As far as I know, we still have these in our arsenal. If anyone knows different, please post...I would be interested in knowing what happened to them if they are no longer in our storage bunkers.
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