Sddam Hussein almost got nuclear weapons… in 1990?

Published March 10, 2010 5:00am ET



Well, the debate over WMDs in Iraq will surely continue. But today’s Washington Post suggests that if Saddam didn’t have WMDs, he certainly tried hard to acquire them:

As troops massed on his border near the start of the Persian Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein weighed the purchase of a $150 million nuclear “package” deal that included not only weapons designs but also production plants and foreign experts to supervise the building of a nuclear bomb, according to documents uncovered by a former U.N. weapons inspector.

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