US Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer

Intent on proving that Iraq was pursuing weapons of mass destruction before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Republican politicians in the US demanded release of an archive of Iraqi documents, and President George Bush gave the nod. Weapons analysts, from agencies such as the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, now describe the release as a dangerous move that provided instructions on building radioactive cores, triggers and circuitry for an atomic bomb. Ever since the public posting in March 2006, experts from the United Nations, the IAEA and other agencies have raised alarm about documents detailing chemical and nuclear weapons. The US has since closed the site, which was described by “The New York Times” as more detailed than other internet how-to bomb web sites. If anything, the documents continue to provide evidence that Hussein did not resume weapons research after the Gulf War in 1991. Ideologists may have hoped to vindicate their hapless decision to invade Iraq – but instead became a dangerous force in weapons proliferation by rejecting evidence, expertise and reason. – YaleGlobal