HC Deb 18 June 1992 vol 209 c668W
Mr. O'Neill

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his reply of 5 June, to the hon. Member for Newport, West (Mr. Flynn),Official Report, column 672, if he will provide details of the type and nature of the evidence that Iraq had developed a crude nuclear warhead design; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Aitken

Iraqi documentation seized by the International Atomic Energy Authority's sixth nuclear inspection team provided the incontrovertible evidence of Iraq's development of a crude nuclear device. A report on that inspection is available in the Library.

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