Iraq and weapons of mass destruction  

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Iraq actively researched and later employed weapons of mass destruction from 1962 to 1991, when it destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile and halted its biological and nuclear weapon programs. 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. In the 1980s, Saddam pursued an extensive biological weapons program and a nuclear weapons program, though no nuclear bomb was built. After the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991), the United Nations (with the Iraqi government) located and destroyed large quantities of Iraqi chemical weapons and related equipment and materials, and Iraq ceased both its chemical, biological and nuclear programs.

See also

• Alexander Coker
• At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA
• Corinne Heraud
• Death of David Kelly
• Demetrius Perricos
• Dodgy Dossier
• In Shifting Sands: The Truth About Unscom and the Disarming of Iraq
• Iraqi biological weapons program
• Iraqi chemical weapons program
• Iraqi aluminum tubes
• Mobile weapons laboratory
• Office of Special Plans
• Operation Opera
• Operation Rockingham
• Project Babylon, a project with unknown objectives commissioned by Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to build a series of "superguns"
• Yellowcake forgery