{"title":"Mahdi Obeidi","description":"\u003cp\u003eMAHDI OBEIDI is a nuclear scientist and co-author of the bestselling book \u003cem\u003eThe Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam’s Nuclear Mastermind\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObeidi holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Swansea in Wales. He served as Director General of Iraq’s Ministry of Military Industrialization under Saddam Hussein, leading the country’s uranium centrifuge enrichment program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen not writing, Obeidi lectures at universities, government agencies, and laboratories on nuclear nonproliferation. That work draws directly on his experience turning over buried centrifuge plans and components to U.S. intelligence following the fall of Baghdad in 2003.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMahdi lives in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMahdi Obeidi’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-bomb-in-my-garden","title":"The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This one book will tell you more about Iraq's quest for weapons of mass destruction than all U.S. intelligence on the subject. It is a fascinating and rare glimpse inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq-and inside a tyrant's mind.\"-Fareed Zakaria, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Future of Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo one knows more about Iraq's nuclear weapons program than Mahdi Obeidi, the man who headed its successful uranium enrichment effort. IN the immediate, chaotic aftermath of the 2003 war in Iraq, Obeidi contacted the arms inspectors he had been forced to lie to for so many years, and voluntarily turned over the key plans and parts to U.S. intelligence. Among the revelations reported by the international media at the time: In the early 1990s, under orders to hide the core of the program from UN weapons inspectors, Obeidi had buried in his backyard garden the critical elements necessary to build uranium-enriching gas centrifuges. What he turned over to U.S. intelligence in the summer of 2003 proved to be the entire remains of a program put on hold since the last Gulf War. Now, at last, Obeidi tells all, taking us inside Saddam's regime and revealing the truth about its quest for nuclear weapons. He captures in nail-biting detail what life was like directly under Saddam's watchful eye--the intimidation, the paranoia, the impossible deadlines. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Bomb in My Garden\u003c\/em\u003e, Dr, Obeidi reveals how he circumvented the international safeguards specifically intended to bar developing nations from obtaining the knowledge and materials needed to build nuclear weapons. He recounts his many \"shopping trips\" abroad, during which he inveigled, bribed, and cajoled scientists and engineers at companies throughout the United Stated and Europe into assisting him. And he details the complex system of from companies and financial institutions he used to pull it all off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0471741272\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9780471741275\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Mahdi Obeidi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43212302942424,"sku":"9780471679653","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43212302975192,"sku":"9780471741275","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780470353714_FC_mockup_v2_1740146286_9ca7240b-3653-4274-ac0b-d9c7e243d156.jpg?v=1790997871"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-mahdi-obeidi.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}