Saddam's bombmaker
Subtitle: the terrifying story of the Iraqi nuclear and biological weapons agenda
By: Khidhir Hamza with Jeff Stein.
Contributors: Stein, Jeff.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Ḥamzah, Khiḍr ʻAbd al-ʻAbbās; Hussein, Saddam, -- 1937-2006; United Nations. -- Special Commission on Iraq; Nuclear weapons -- Iraq; Nuclear arms control -- Iraq; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Iraq -- Military policy
Description: "In 1994, after twenty years developing Iraq's atomic weapon, Dr. Khidhir Hamza made a daring escape to warn the CIA of Saddam's nuclear ambitions...only to be ridiculed and turned away! After a harrowing journey across three continents with Iraqi agents on his trail, Hamza finally came in from the cold at the U.S. embassy in Hungary.

Now he tells a frightening story that U.S. officials have finally come to believe: that Saddam is still feverishly at work on the bomb and, if pushed to the wall, will use it.".

"Dr. Hamza also presents a startling, unprecedented portrait of Saddam himself - his drunken rages, his women, his fear of germs, and his cold-blooded murder of underlings. A former resident of the presidential palace, Hamza is the only defector who has lived to write a firsthand, intimate portrait of the Iraqi inner circle, its spies and hit men, and their brutal chief.".

"Saddam's Bombmaker is also a saga of one man's journey through the circles of hell. Educated at MIT and Florida State University, dedicated to a life of peaceful teaching in America, Dr. Hamza relates how the regime ordered him home, seduced him into a pampered life as an atomic energy official, and forced him to design a bomb. The price of refusal was torture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Lisa Drew book."

Includes index.