![]() ![]() Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ![]() Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. The State Establishment for Pesticide Production (SEPP) ordered culture media and incubators from Germany's Water Engineering Trading. All told, 52% of Iraq's international chemical weapon equipment was of German origin. Laboratory equipment and other information was provided, involving many German engineers. In 1988, German engineers presented centrifuge data that helped Iraq expand its nuclear weapons program. Five other German firms supplied equipment to manufacture botulin toxin and mycotoxin for germ warfare. This work allowed Iraq to produce 150 tons of mustard agent and 60 tons of Tabun in 19 respectively, continuing throughout the decade. German firms sent 1,027 tons of precursors of mustard gas, sarin, tabun, and tear gasses in all. As part of Project 922, Iraq built chemical weapons facilities such as laboratories, bunkers, an administrative building, and first production buildings in the early 1980s under the cover of a pesticide plant. Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs were assisted by a wide variety of firms and governments in the 1970s and 1980s. In the early 1970s, Saddam Hussein ordered the creation of a clandestine nuclear weapons program. Īfter 6 months France agreed to sell 72 kg of 93% uranium and built a nuclear power plant without IAEA control at a price of $3 billion. However, an agreement of co-operation was signed on April 15, which superseded the one of 1959. Moscow would approve only if the station was regulated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, but Iraq refused. ġ975 – Saddam Hussein arrived in Moscow and asked about building an advanced model of an atomic power station. ġ968 – a Soviet supplied IRT-2000 research reactor together with a number of other facilities that could be used for radioisotope production was built close to Baghdad. ![]() The Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center, Baghdad, Post-strike.ġ959 – August 17 USSR and Iraq signed an agreement for the USSR to build a nuclear power plant and established a nuclear program as part of their mutual understanding. History Program development 1960s–1980s Iraqīaghdad Nuclear Research Facility – 10 March 1991. Iraq ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention in January 2009, with its entry into force for Iraq coming a month later on February 12. Iraq signed the Geneva Protocol in 1931, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1969, and the Biological Weapons Convention in 1972, but did not ratify it until June 11, 1991. United States–led inspections later found that Iraq had earlier ceased active WMD production and stockpiling the war was called by many, including 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a "mistake". A year later, the United States Senate officially released the Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq which concluded that many of the Bush Administration's pre-war statements about Iraqi WMD were misleading and not supported by the underlying intelligence. Despite this, Bush asserted peaceful measures could not disarm Iraq of the weapons he alleged it to have and launched a second Gulf War instead. The United States asserted that Hussein's frequent lack of cooperation was a breach of Resolution 1441, but failed to convince the United Nations Security Council to pass a new resolution authorizing the use of force due to lack of evidence. Inspections by the UN to resolve the status of unresolved disarmament questions restarted between November 2002 and March 2003, under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441, which demanded Hussein give "immediate, unconditional and active cooperation" with UN and IAEA inspections, shortly before his country was attacked. Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair both asserted that Saddam Hussein's weapons programs were still actively building weapons and that large stockpiles of WMDs were hidden in Iraq. After the Gulf War (1990–1991), the United Nations (with the Government of Iraq) located and destroyed large quantities of Iraqi chemical weapons and related equipment and materials Iraq ceased its chemical, biological and nuclear programs. In the 1980s, Saddam pursued an extensive biological weapons program and a nuclear weapons program, though no nuclear bomb was built. The fifth president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was internationally condemned for his use of chemical weapons during the 1980s campaign against Iranian and Kurdish civilians during and after the Iran–Iraq War. Iraq actively researched and later employed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from 1962 to 1991, when it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile and halted its biological and nuclear weapon programs as required by the United Nations Security Council. ![]()
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