Dimensions
129 x 198 x 20mm
The Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security.
As UNSCOM's senior inspector in Iraq, Richard Butler found himself faced with not one threat to world peace but two: the first was Saddam, the other his own UN employees.
At their headquarters in New York, the United Nations appeared united only in disarray as, again and again, Kofi Annan sought to paper over the problems. While France edged and jostled for commercial contracts, Russia pursued a diplomatic agenda all her own; Britain and America tried, but could not prevail against such hypocrisy. Meanwhile, back in Baghdad, his Gulf War defeat now a distant memory, a dangerous dictator was rebuilding his chemical and biological arsenals and resuming his nuclear weapons development program.
Time is running out for the international order, says Butler in this shocking book: Saddam can still be stopped, but it won't be easy and it must be soon. Before too long Saddam Hussein will be back to hold the whole civilised world to ransom.
