8/15/1990

“…in August 1990 [Saddam’s son-in-law, General Hussein] Kamel had ordered a crash program to make a nuclear weapon, using fissionable material from research reactor fuel that was under IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] safeguards. That program had failed.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 30