Customs seize Iraqi nuclear triggers

Title

Customs seize Iraqi nuclear triggers

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:03:47

Description

Report on UK and USA customs operations stopping Saddam Hussein receiving nuclear bomb detonators in Iraq which could have been used in the recent Gulf war and a trial of the chief of a British company involved. Includes interviews with UK Customs Chief Investigation Officer Douglas Tweddle; US Customs Service Attache in Britain John Hurley. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Douglas Tweddle; John Hurley

Keywords

USA; UK; Arms sales; Nuclear weapons; Nuclear warfare; Nuclear bomb; Wars (events); Iraq; Gulf War (1990-1991); Saddam Hussein; Operation Desert Storm (1991)

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