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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Iraq · Warfare / Military. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

8Records
1991–2003Date range
3Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1991

Rihab Rashid Taha1991

Warfare / Military

By January 1991, a team of 100 scientists and support staff had filled 157 bombs and 16 missile warheads with botulin toxin, and 50 bombs and five missile warheads with anthrax

1995

Saddam Hussein1995

Warfare / Military

After General Hussein Kamel, Minister of Industry and Minerals and former Director of Iraq's Military Industrialization Corporation, responsible for Iraq's weapons programs, fled for Jordan, Iraq reveals an extensive biological weapons program

Hussein Kamel1995

Warfare / Military

After General Hussein Kamel, Minister of Industry and Minerals and former Director of Iraq's Military Industrialization Corporation, responsible for Iraq's weapons programs, fled for Jordan, Iraq reveals an extensive biological weapons program

Rihab Rashid Taha1995

Warfare / Military

Rod Barton from Australia, showed Taha documents obtained by UNSCOM that showed the Iraqi Government had just purchased 10 tons of growth medium from a British company called Oxoid

1999

Saddam Hussein1999

Warfare / Military

Iraq is now forced to admit for the first time the existence of an offensive biological weapons program

2002

Saddam Hussein2002

Warfare / Military

In late 2002 Saddam Hussein, in a letter to Hans Blix, invites United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country

Saddam Hussein2002

Warfare / Military

The United Nations Security Council issues resolution 1441 authorizing new inspections in Iraq

2003

Saddam HusseinJanuary 2003

Warfare / Military

The United Nations weapons inspectors report that they had found no indication that Iraq possessed nuclear weapons or an active program

Names involved

Hussein KamelRihab Rashid TahaSaddam Hussein

Provenance

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