Despite the fact that events have since outstripped this documentary's premise-that Saddam Hussein's nuclear programmes posed a looming threat to Israel-this remains a fascinating look at nuclear proliferation, in this case perpetrated on an entirely legal basis by government's a German scientist named Karl-Heinz Schaab. The film is actually most interesting when it's dealing with issues other than Schaab's complicity with Iraq's attempts to acquire centrifuges, as it spends considerable time detailing the efforts of Nazi Germany's efforts to develop nuclear weaponry, and the fate of Nazi scientists and German industrial concerns in the post-War period. Though the film relies too much on interviews with the thoroughly discredited Iraqi defector and camera magnet Khidhir Hamza, whose knowledge of Hussein's nuclear programme extends only until 1994, this remains a powerful indictment of personal greed and corporate aggrandizement.
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cim200021 January 2009
The word centrifuge was new to me, but shortly after viewing this documentary - GWB was looking for reasons to go in, the word centrifuge was used on a daily basis when speaking to the media to create fear. Many didn't know what that was all about. Yet to those who saw this film knew it was not likely true, considering what the documentary indicated. Perhaps that is why this film is so difficult to get your hands on or see a Trailer online. One of the producers was very professional, had the highest level of media reporting experience , yet seemed nervous to be releasing this film. If more had been paying attention and watched this documentary, more films such as Loose Change would be made in relation to this portion of the story.
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