Saddam Hussein's Laser Separation

Saddam Hussein was the former president of Iraq for over twenty years. Born on April 28, 1937, in Tikrit, Iraq, Saddam Hussein was a secularist who rose through the Baath political party to assume a dictatorial presidency. Under his rule, segments of the populace enjoyed the benefits of oil wealth, while those in opposition faced torture and execution. After military conflicts with U.S.-led armed forces, Hussein was captured in 2003. He was later executed.

Saddam Hussein became the head of the Iraq government in 1979. Around the same time, radical Islamic ideas coming from the Islamic Revolution were spreading in the region, especially Iraq, Saddam feared those hostiles movements and in 1980, invaded Iraq. The country had the support of many nations, including the United States, for doing so. The war ended eight years later, and Iraq didn’t achieve what it had desired. The war caused thousands of deaths, left Iraq with a debt of billions of dollars and slowed its development on oil export. Kuwait was one of the states that supported Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War, the country was also scared of the Islamic and Revolution and wanted to prevent Iranian hegemony in Kuwait. Even though, since Kuwait’s

My family has been a part of the mining industry for most of my life I myself live near many of the uranium mining areas. Through these affiliations I have learned some of the processes by which uranium is mined. There are two different ways to mine uranium, the first way is to mine it is much like how coal is mined. Depending of the depth of the uranium it can either be mined by using surface mining (open pit) or sub surface mining (underground). The ore is removed by blasting and drilling than the ore is moved to the surface. After words it is ground up and mixed with chemicals to separate the uranium from the rock.

A second way extremists could exploit radioactive materials would be by creating a “dirty bomb” by planting a conventional bomb with radioactive materials. It would disperse when the bomb exploded. Terrorists might be able to purchase existing nuclear weapons on the black market.

There are three ways of acquiring radioactive material, Steal it from a site with poor safeguards. Depending on their location, such sites would include processing sites, non- strategic weapons sites, radioactive waste disposal sites, radioactive transports, and finally medical facilities. The second way to acquire the material is to buy it on the black market and finally make the material yourself.

When Saddam Hussein refused to leave Iraq, the United States and allied forces launched an attack on the morning of March 20, 2003. The invasion itself only lasted 21 days, concluding with the capture of the Iraqi capital of Bagdad by American forces. Massive air strikes across the country and against Iraqi command and control threw the defending army into chaos, preventing the Iraqi military from making an effective resistance. The main body of the coalition forces pushed hard and fast across Iraq meeting little to no resistance. Iraqi president at the time, Saddam Hussein and his central leadership went into hiding as the coalition military forces completed the occupancy of the country. On May 1, 2003, an end to all major combat operations

On September 11, 2001, militant Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijacked commercial airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people. Immediately, U.S. intelligence agencies stepped up investigations into Iraq’s possible connection to the terrorist organization al-Qaida, which claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Depleted Uranium is a significant problem that is harming innocent people. People who are living in heavily militarized areas are getting the worst of it. The people living in the city of Fallujah are trying simply wanting to live and the use of DU as a conventional war weapon is destructive by killing people, or compromising their health. It makes it difficult to go to work when a person develops cancer and is too tired and sick to get out of bed. For a women to be pregnant and after giving birth realizes her baby has serious deformities is heartbreaking. Fallujah is one example of a population severely affected by the use of depleted uranium. Furthermore, the lack of information and unwillingness by the United States government to recognize

Several terrorist organizations have claimed to possess small tactical nuclear weapons acquired from the former Soviet Union. This is the most possible likely method of acquisition but its probability of becoming a reality are very low. In the 1990s a terrorist organization out of Japan was well funded and attempted to purchase nuclear weapons from the failing Soviet Union (Bergen 2010, 1). Both official and unofficial channels were explored and neither proved successful. Even during its collapse, the most chaotic time in recent memory, soviet nuclear devices were not being made available for sale, even to those with large

In October of 2014, Hussein became brain dead in a car accident because of drunk driving due to the actions of the person in the other vehicle. Hussein was only 23 and was from a rich family who insisted on keeping him alive via life support. After the healing of rest of his body, doctors said to his parents that their son was brain dead but his organs were still vital and could be used to save many people on the transplant list. The parents insisted that their son was still alive and his heart was still beating so it was immoral to euthanize their son and it would be considered murder. On the other hand doctors said that in few years Hussein would face organ failure because of bedding for so long and then his organs would not be useful anymore

Another country like Saudi Arabia with vast amounts of oil is Iraq. However Iraq is not just about the oil. It is also about water ways and geopolitics. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flows through Iraq. Giving Iraq the majority of control of the water resource. Iraq’s location is also desirable to the United States. It borders Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey. It also has a coast line of the Persian gulf. Their location is also missile sticking distance to Israel and the USSR. Controlling Iraq gives the United States the ability in “controlling” the Middle East. However the United States was not able to coerced Iraq into being a pawn. Saddam Hussein refused the proposals of the economic hit-man. For Saddam Hussein, this was the begin of his demise.

Saddam was born in April 28, 1937 in Tikrit, Iraq. He was born into a poor family. His father disappeared before he was born and his older brother died of cancer shortly after. His mother was so depressed because of his older brother’s death and his father leaving that she was unable to take care of him. He moved to live with his uncle in Baghdad when he was three. He later moved in with a devout Sunni Muslim named Talfah. Talfah’s politics had a huge influence on Saddam growing up. Saddam later joined the Ba’ath Party. The Ba’ath Party’s main ideology was to unite Arab states in the Middle East. Members of the Ba’ath party, including Saddam, attempted to assassinate Iraq’s then-president, Abd al-Karim Qasim on October 7, 1959 because he didn’t want to Unite all Arab states. The assassination was a failure, and several of the members were caught, tried, and executed. All the other members, including Saddam, fled to Syria. Saddam later then went to Egypt, where he attended law school.

The Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), through its Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (DNN), works closely with a wide range of international partners, key U.S. federal agencies, the U.S. national laboratories, and the private sector to detect, secure, and dispose of dangerous nuclear and radiological material, and related WMD technology and expertise

This is why uranium is so popular within the higher ups of countries, especially the military.

It became known in the 1990’s that Iran had certainly renewed their civilian nuclear projects, and Western tension continued to increase following 2002 and 2003 reports that Iran began clandestine research into fuel enrichment and conversion. This sparked international controversy over the intentions behind Iran’s nuclear program beyond civilian or peaceful purposes. For example, the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center is suspected to house Iran’s nuclear weapons programs, and is also the alleged location of Iran’s uranium-conversion efforts.iv It is estimated that as many as 366 tons of uranium hexafluoride has been produced since 2004. This is then fed into centrifuges at another key site: the Natanz enrichment facility.