This book is an authoritative account of the nuclear weapons inspections regime in Iraq from 1991 to 1998.

Without a proper understanding of those years, the 2003 US invasion of Iraq after a futile WMD search remain unintelligible. In the 1990s, after adapting to a completely new kind of intrusive inspections with unprecedented access rights, the IAEA discovered and dismantled Iraq s clandestine nuclear weapons program and put in place an efficient monitoring system which could have contained Saddam Hussein s attempts to reconstitute his nuclear programs had he ever tried to. However,...