The twilight of the bombs

Some fascinating insights into the WMD inspections in Iraq and lead up to the occupation of Iraq and the also the part the US played in making safe of the Soviet nuclear arsenal after the break-up of the USSR. I didn't realise how Richard Rhodes actually became part of the story he was documenting when weapons inspectors recognised the machinery of the Iraqi nuclear program installation based on descriptions of early US attempts at refining Uranium that he described in "The Making of the Atomic Bomb". Worth reading as retrospective on recent history.