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Wikileaks really should know better than to go after Mossad, but since they did, there's some interesting stuff they uncovered. Apparently Israel was putting serious effort into stopping Gerald Bull from working with the Iraqis on Project Babylon. Seems they broke into his flat several times, and were actually working their way up to killing him - then that mess in Syria happened, and the whole thing seemed to have gotten shelved.

What if it hadn't?

Obviously Project Babylon might not have gone ahead, though by that point the Iraqis possibly had enough blueprints to finish construction anyway. Would it's absense affect anything?

Biggest difference I can think of it that there wouldn't have been that embarressing UN presentation where Colin Powell talked about how destabalising the weapon was, and how it was 'obviously' a delivery system for Iraqi WMDs. Which the Iraqis kinda nerfed two weeks later when Hans Blix was finally allowed on site and witnessed a satellite launch; and that the gun was a fixed mount, and couldn't be turned to point towards Israel. (Of course it might have had the capacity to hit any target within 28 degrees of the equator, but after America invaded, bombed the site, removed everything portable, and democharged the rest, we'll never know.)
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