Saddam's Bombmaker is the true 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, Iraqi scientist Dr. Khidhir Hamza relates how Saddam's 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. With the cynical help of U.S., French, German, and British suppliers and experts, he secretly developed Baghdad's nuclear bomb and kept it hidden from U.N. inspectors after the Gulf War. This is the tale of his escape, his first bungled contact with CIA agents, and his flight abroad.

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