Gerald Bull’s Supergun

March 19th, 2016

Via: BBC:

But Big Babylon was never built, and no-one has got close since. So what happened? The answer is a tale of hubris, thwarted ambitions and military secrets. At a time when Bull’s expertise should have been in high demand by all of the world’s superpowers, he chose to make his supergun for Saddam Hussein instead, a decision that would end in murder.

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2 Responses to “Gerald Bull’s Supergun”

  1. bloodnok says:
    March 20, 2016 at 2:03 pm

    Frederick Forsyth’s novel The Fist of God is based around Iraq’s supergun. It’s a damn good read if you like that sort of thing.

  2. williamspd says:
    March 21, 2016 at 11:26 am

    All the ‘supergun’ bull leaves me cold and mystified. The thing was obviously a low orbit satellite launcher.

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