Overview
This book reveals another side of Iraq’s nuclear history. It is the story of a daily struggle within a vast technical project, one hoped to turn Iraq into a major economic power, not only a nuclear one, through expertise, knowledge, and means of production built in large part locally by distinguished, capable, and devoted engineers.
The book answers questions that have stayed open in the minds of many Iraqis, and of the world.
Questions the book answers
- Was Iraq on the verge of building the atomic bomb?
- Should Iraq have entered a nuclear arms program at all?
- What roles did officials, politicians, and scientists play in the program's course?
- Why did the Iraqi nuclear program fail?
- What are the lessons for the future, and can a Middle East free of nuclear weapons be built?
