Gerald Bull

7.17: GERALD BULL

By the time he started to work for Saddam Hussein in 1988, Canadian engineer Gerald Bull had been developing so-called super guns for decades. Project Babylon, as the Iraqi weapons program was called, would have given Hussein a powerful artillery piece capable of hitting Israel - potentially with a “dirty bomb”.

Before the scheme could come to fruition, Bull was assassinated in 1990. But by whom? The answer might not be so obvious as it might seem.