  This report is based on a series of papers written between 1980 and 2005 on
the origin of Iraq's nuclear weapons program, which was known to one of the
authors in the late 1970s already, as well as to a number of other physicists,
who independently tried without success to inform their governments and the
public.
  It is concluded that at no point did the Western governments effectively try
to stop Iraq's nuclear weapons program, which suggests that its existence was
useful as a foreign policy tool, as is confirmed by its use as a major
justification to wage two wars on Iraq.
