Somewhat related, most people don't realize how far along Iraq's nuclear program was at the time of the first Gulf War, even despite the Israeli raid on Osirik.

Somewhat related, most people don't realize how far along Iraq's nuclear program was at the time of the first Gulf War, even despite the Israeli raid on Osirik. Iraq had enriched a large amount of Uranium using calutrons, had recovered some HEU from their experimental reactors, and had done a considerable amount of R&D on bomb designs. If Saddam had not invaded Kuwait when he did it's almost certain that he would have had a functional nuclear weapon or several by the mid-1990s at the latest.