By the time the first Gulf War began, Iraq had already proved its missile prowess. In the 1980’s, Iraq had fought and won a major conflict with Iran in which…
Iraq
From 2000 to 2006, the Wisconsin Project published Iraq Watch, a website that monitored Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction capability and the companies and countries supplying Iraq. Through Iraq Watch, the Project revealed dangerous transfers to Iraq that took place in the 1990s in violation of U.N. sanctions. Iraq Watch was archived in August 2006, but the last version of the site is available here. The Project’s analysis and advocacy related to Iraq, including its WMD capability under the Saddam Hussein regime, U.N. sanctions, and international inspections is listed below.
Iraq’s Biological Weapon Program Profile
This is a brief history of Iraq’s attempt to build germ weapons. It begins with a chronology that emphasizes individual facilities and germs, although many important details were never revealed…
Iraq’s Nuclear Weapon Program Profile
This is a brief history of Iraq’s attempt to build a nuclear weapon. The emphasis is on Iraq’s technical achievements rather than its motives, and the history relies primarily on…
Iraq’s Chemical Weapons Program Profile
Well before Operation Desert Storm or the U.N. inspections that followed it, Iraq had already begun to build chemical weapons. After launching a research effort in the 1970s, Iraq was…
What the Inspectors Can’t Find and Why they Can’t Find it
The New York Times The Week in Review December 20, 1998 Arms inspectors have been trying for seven years to verify that Iraq has kept its promise to destroy its…
Could Iraq Have the Atomic Bomb?
The New York Times November 19, 1997, p. A39 While the United States, Russia and other countries search for diplomatic solutions to the crisis in Iraq, the risk grows that…
Iraq is Still a Threat, U.N. Says
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction are still a threat, say U.N. inspectors, who are now digesting a stunning load of incriminating documents found in a chicken coop on an Iraqi…
Iraq: Monitoring its Future
Iraq’s drive to lift the U.N. oil embargo is raising the specter that Iraq may soon get the petrodollars it needs to rebuild its mass destruction war machine the factories…
Iraq: U. S. Thwarts Saddam’s Smuggling Efforts
Recent U.S. efforts to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction have paid off, with a guilty plea from the man who arranged the shipment of 30 tons of…
Who Armed Iraq? Answers the West Didn’t Want to Hear
The New York Times Week in Review July 18, 1993 The terms of the punishment forced on Iraq since the Persian Gulf War may be most valuable for what they…