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Search - Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda

Saddam's Bombmaker The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda
Author: Jeff Stein

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. Do... more »n't tell me about the law. The law is anything I write on a scrap of paper."

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.

ISBN-13: 9780684873862
ISBN-10: 0684873869
Publication Date: 11/14/2000
Pages: 352
Rating:

Currently 3/5 Stars.

3 stars, based on 2 ratings

Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Hardcover
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Genres:

History >> Middle East >> General
History >> Middle East >> Iran
History >> Middle East >> Iraq
History >> Military >> Weapons & Warfare >> Biological & Chemical
History >> Military >> Weapons & Warfare >> Nuclear
Nonfiction >> Current Events >> International
Nonfiction >> Current Events >> Terrorism
Uncategorized >> International & World Politics >> National & International Security

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