Kuwait invasion 'killed Saddam's nuclear weapon programme'

The father of Iraq’s nuclear programme said his nation would have developed atomic weapons in the early 1990s had Saddam Hussein not ordered the invasion of Kuwait.

Kuwait invasion 'killed Saddam's nuclear weapon programme'

The father of Iraq’s nuclear programme said his nation would have developed atomic weapons in the early 1990s had Saddam Hussein not ordered the invasion of Kuwait.

The invasion sparked the US-led Operation Desert Storm in 1991, which drove Iraq out of Kuwait and marked the end of Baghdad’s nuclear and biological weapons programme, said Jafar Dhia Jafar in Oslo.

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