Back to IraqHans Blix, the UN's chief weapons inspector, and Mohamed El Baradei, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, led the weapons inspectors back to Iraq.
David Kay, who led U.N. weapons inspectors' efforts after the Gulf War, has written that Iran's claims of abandoning its weapons capabilities could never be conclusively verified.
But the presence of sophisticated laboratory equipment led American weapons experts who surveyed this site to conclude that the Iraqi government might have been using the ammunition plant partly to hide unconventional weapons.
Old West Point photos show a handsome man in a crisp uniform who graduated in 1974, joined the cavalry at Fort Bliss, then led nuclear weapons support teams in Korea.
Over the years, Temour collected thousands of dollars in rewards for tips that led to weapons busts or arrests of Taliban suspects, according to officials who worked with him.
Details of the Israeli nuclear program were revealed to the media by a former Dimona facility technician in 1986, and an analysis of that evidence led American weapon designers to conclude that Israel's nuclear arsenal was much larger than previously thought (perhaps between 100 and 200 weapons) and that Israel was capable of building a neutron bomb.
"So far, there's really not much in that arena," said one official who has monitored the continuing search for weapons led by David Kay, a former weapons inspector who is now conducting the search for the Central Intelligence Agency.
The UN weapons inspector led the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq between 2000 and 2003 but none were discovered.
In addition, fears that nuclear energy programmes can easily lead to weapons programmes are unfounded – it is reportedly possible, but not practical, and has never been achieved.
Bertha von Suttner, his personal friend and Austrian Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1905, relates how Nobel anticipated that his invention would lead to weapons so powerful "that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second".
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a Conservative former foreign secretary and chair of the intelligence and security committee, has played down the idea that arming the Syrian opposition could lead to weapons getting into the hands of al-Qaida.
