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Despite the fact that events have since outstripped this documentary's premise-that Saddam Hussein's nuclear programmes posed a looming threat to Israel-this remains a fascinating look at nuclear proliferation, in this case perpetrated on an entirely legal basis by government's a German scientist named Karl-Heinz Schaab. The film is actually most interesting when it's dealing with issues other than Schaab's complicity with Iraq's attempts to acquire centrifuges, as it spends considerable time detailing the efforts of Nazi Germany's efforts to develop nuclear weaponry, and the fate of Nazi scientists and German industrial concerns in the post-War period. Though the film relies too much on interviews with the thoroughly discredited Iraqi defector and camera magnet Khidhir Hamza, whose knowledge of Hussein's nuclear programme extends only until 1994, this remains a powerful indictment of personal greed and corporate aggrandizement.