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Better know a non-nuke: Iraq

Better know a non-nuke: Iraq

Update: 2025-10-16
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In this episode of The Arms Control Primer, host Alex Bollfrass is joined by Dr Hans Blix and Dr Stephen Herzog to examine Iraq’s nuclear ambitions under Saddam Hussein: from its early civilian programme to clandestine enrichment efforts and the post-Gulf War inspections that reshaped international safeguards and the future of arms control.


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Better know a non-nuke: Iraq

Better know a non-nuke: Iraq