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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: NickSE who wrote (70121)1/30/2003 1:30:29 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
It was my understanding that Iraq had a nascent gas centrifuge project prior to the Gulf War.

Here's a link from FAS which is also just plain interesting reading on Iraqi deception and denial of its weapons programs post 1991. As always, lots of great documents at fas.org on the subject and very educational.

fas.org
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On 27 April 1991, Iraq submitted a selective declaration of its inventory of nuclear material which was limited to the material previously declared by Iraq pursuant to its safeguards agreement with the IAEA. This declaration included some nuclear material which was not weapon-usable but did not include much larger amounts of other non-weapon-usable nuclear materials which had been clandestinely acquired or produced. Iraq's declaration also listed 23 buildings on the Tuwaitha site of the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission, as well as the uranium yallowcake production facility at Al Qaim. However, the declaration failed to include the uranium dioxide and uranium tetrachloride plants at A1 Jesira, the electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS) uranium enrichment facilities at Al Tarmiya and A1 Shargat, the nuclear weapons development and production facilities at A1 Atheer and A1 Qa Qaa and the gas centrifuge uranium enrichment facilities at A1 Rashdiya and A1 Furat or any of the engineering, manufacturing and support facilities. It was against this background that the IAEA commenced its first on-site inspection campaign on 15 May 1991. [S/1997/779]
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