Title: Saddam's bombmaker
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Military policy, Nuclear arms control, Nuclear weapons, Persian Gulf War, 1991, United Nations, United Nations. Special Commission on Iraq, Hussein, saddam, 1937-2006, Iraq, politics and government, Public Policy, Nuclear Warfare, United Nations Special Commission on Iraq
Places: Iraq
People: Khiḍr ʻAbd al-ʻAbbās Ḥamzah, Saddam Hussein (1937-2006)
LC classification: UA853.I72 H35 2000