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Author Harrer, Gudrun, 1959-

Title Dismantling the Iraqi nuclear programme : the inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1991-1998 / Gudrun Harrer
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
Series Routledge new diplomacy studies
Routledge new diplomacy studies.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Resolution 687 -- the legal basis for the disarmament of Iraq; Resolution 660 and subsequent resolutions; Adoption of Resolution 687; Disarmament provisions in Resolution 687; The nuclear file; Iraq's acceptance; The UN Special Commission; 2 Tasking the IAEA; The relationship between UNSCOM and IAEA; IAEA inspections in Iraq before and after Resolution 687; Setting up the IAEA Action Team; Finances; The Ongoing Monitoring and Verification (OMV) plan; Reporting
Synopsis of the IAEA mission in Iraq3 The start of the inspection process; Proceedings of IAEA 1; Information on the Iraqi Nuclear Program prior to 1991; 4 Obstruction and concealment; The first incidents: Abu Ghraib Army Barracks; The Falluja military transportation facility and the popular narrative; Iraq's non-cooperation and the Iraqi scientists' situation; High-level mission to Baghdad; Tuwaitha and Tarmiya; Stages of concealment; 5 Methodological work; Jafar Dhia Jafar; Questions and answers; Flawed relationship; 6 Deterioration on all fronts; Plutonium separation; Centrifuges
Electro Magnetic Isotope Separation (EMIS)Weaponization; Consequences of Iraqi non-compliance; 7 The breakthrough -- the document-search inspection; The Nuclear Design Center inspection; The PC-3 headquarters inspection, the parking lot incident -- The documents; Security Council reactions; Iraqi documentation of the nuclear program and concealment of documents; 8 A more coherent picture; Removal of fresh highly-enriched uranium from Iraq; Vague answers; 9 Procurement and declaration questions; The filament-winding machine; Completeness; Rashdiya; Irritations
10 The underground reactor and faulty designationsDestruction; New defiance; Progress; Maraging steel; Document search; 11 Between bombing campaigns; Inconsistencies; Preparations for OMV; Movement on the Iraqi side; 12 Permanent presence; Al-Rutbah underground bunker; Laser isotope separation; Khidhir Hamza; Nuclear Monitoring Group; 13 Hussein Kamel's defection; Revelations; The crash program -- Weaponization; Centrifuges; Iraq's cooperation; Stemmler, Schaab & Co.; A.Q. Khan; 14 Dead ends; The Iraqi declarations; OMV after 1995; The October 1997 report; 15 The collapse
The November 1997 and February 1998 crisesTemporary end of disarmament inspections, August 1998; The November 1998 crisis; End of the inspection process; The Security Council after Operation Desert Fox; The Amorim panel and Resolution 1284; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
Summary "This book is an authoritative account of the nuclear weapons inspections regime in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. Without a proper understanding of those years, the 2003 US invasion of Iraq after a futile WMD search remain unintelligible. In the 1990s, after adapting to a completely new kind of intrusive inspections with unprecedented access rights, the IAEA discovered and dismantled Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program and put in place an efficient monitoring system which could have contained Saddam Hussein's attempts to reconstitute his nuclear programs--had he ever tried to. However, the politicisation of the inspection process led to an end of the inspections in 1998. Based on various sources including inspection reports and other documents in the archive of the IAEA Iraq Action Team at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Dismantling the Iraqi Nuclear Programme presents completely new information about the weapons inspection regime in Iraq and offers valuable lessons for future non-proliferation and disarmament cases. The book also draws on discourse from Iraqi scientists, which provides a close look into not only the motivation of involved Iraqis, but also Iraqi concealment mechanisms. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation, arms control, Middle Eastern politics, diplomacy, international security and IR."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject International Atomic Energy Agency.
SUBJECT International Atomic Energy Agency fast
Subject Nuclear weapons -- Iraq
Nuclear facilities -- Inspection -- Iraq
Nuclear arms control -- Verification -- Iraq
Disarmament -- On-site inspection -- Iraq
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Arms Control.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- International Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Disarmament -- On-site inspection
Nuclear arms control -- Verification
Nuclear facilities -- Inspection
Nuclear weapons
disarmament -- nuclear arms control -- verification -- IAEA -- on-site inspection -- Iraq.
nuclear weapons -- facilities -- nuclear energy -- nuclear reactors -- Iraq.
Iraq
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134115501
1134115504
9780203628690
0203628691