In an interview with Al-Ahram Weekly, Imad Khadduri, a senior Iraqi nuclear scientist who was involved in Iraq's nuclear programme for 30 years, claimed, "Iraq is in no position today to produce a nuclear device or deliver it, and has not been able to engage in nuclear research since the end of the 1991 War."

He said allegations that Iraq might manufacture a "large, dirty bomb deliverable by aircraft or missile" are in the realm of "science fiction". Iraq has neither the "reactors nor the neutron generators needed to produce such a weapon". Weapons inspectors "have found nothing because there is nothing to be found".