Saddam's Bombmaker

I read this back in 2003 and really really enjoyed it. With recent info out now stating there was more fiction than fact, I still found it entertaining. I don't doubt that some of the horror and fear Iraqis felt during his reign were very real. As for Hamza's story, not too sure. Either way I still......more

I read /Saddam's Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon/, by Dr. Khidir Hamzi. [URL not allowed] Having already recently read /The Devil’s Double/ by Latif Yahia, I had already been transported to the world of Saddam’s Iraq before and during the i......more

Dr. Hamza is an Iraqi who was educated at M.I.T. as a nuclear physicist, before ending up as an instructor at a small college. But it wasn't long before Saddam Hussein recruited him to return to Iraq and ultimately head up his program to build nuclear weapons. This book reads like a spy thriller, but......more

Higher-up in Saddam's Iraq describes Saddam's efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction. Books like this were used to present the case for the Iraq War. Even when reading this book well before the plans for the invasion were announced, I found a lot of the perceived "threat" to be pretty minimal......more

I've had this book for a few years and this was my second read of it. This is an autobiographical account of a scientist who was working on Saddam's nuclear bomb project. It is an interesting inside look at how Saddam's reigime worked. Apparently there has been some doubt cast on the authenticity of......more