Weapons of Mass Destruction myth and the subsequent invasion of Iraq

Gerald Bull was a Canadian space scientist who worked in the 1960s on the High Altitude Research Project (HARP) developing these instruments with the aim of firing weather probes into sub-orbit and removing multiple rocket stages for each orbit –a much cheaper alternative.

Devoid of funding for a very long time, he was finally approached by a client in 1981 owing to the country’s immediate requirements and had the instrument prepared by 1988 –that could launch a 2000 kg rocket assisted projectile carrying a 200 kg satellite.However, it all came to an end a year later when he was assassinated.

Who was this client, who came forward to provide funding? How did this play a part in a major geopolitical event more than two decades later?

ANSWER= 

Saddam Hussein, who wanted to use it in the prevailing Iran-Iraq War.

Contributed to the Weapons of Mass Destruction myth and the subsequent invasion of Iraq.

Ref.:

1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon

2)https://theintercept.com/2015/04/10/twelve-years-later-u-s-media-still-cant-get-iraqi-wmd-story-right/

3)http://thebulletin.org/winter-safe-deterrence-debate/myth-biological-weapons-poor-man%E2%80%99s-atomic-bomb

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