What Happened to Saddam Hussein's Space Gun

The 1980s were the years of the distinctive ambitions and spectacular visions. Meanwhile, nothing was as intense as the supergun project, which was an attempt to destroy the entire population of the enemy at once — something that became possible due to collaboration between Saddam Hussein, the ex-president of Iraq, and the mysterious engineer Gerald Bull.

The research of Gerald Bull concerning superguns was not particularly related to his meeting with the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein. North Bay, Ontario was Bulls’ native land. His early life was replete with pains and loneliness. Being orphaned very early, he found solace in studying as he eventually acquired a doctorate in aeronautical engineering from the University of Toronto. However, being an average academic student, "Boy Rocket Scientist" nickname was well deserved because of Bull's talent in creativity and technical management.

Bull's obsession with superguns began with an unsought meeting with a German woman, who provided him with manuscripts written by a top-secret German engineer on their supergun which revolutionized WWI. The meeting was all it took for Bull to ignite an obsession that would dictate the course of his life and lead him into the secret world of weapons design.

In the 1960s Bull assists the US and Canada with supergun technology, imagining that one day his designs can take satellites into space. Yet, this goal of his was spoiled by the Vietnam War that divided up the funds for such projects. Undeterred, Bull went into the unconventional financial realm and started dealing with South Africa in terms of illegal arms so he can finance the research of his supergun dreams.

In spite of being faced with legal consequences, Bull did not give up on his project, and he the Space Research Corporation of Quebec to continue his research. His experience drew the attention of Saddam Hussein who viewed Bull's design as a potential weapon of war in the Iraq-Iran war.

The 1980s were a year when science was venturing into the unknown and thinking big. However, there could have been nothing more drastic in terms of the ideas of a sphere covered with a shell, capable of destroying mass — a dream that Saddam Hussein, who was the former president of Iraq, together with the enigmatic engineer Gerald Bull, managed to realize through their collaboration.

From the very outset it was determined that the history of the superguns would have begun long before the ever first encounter with the gun by Hussein. Just like crazy, sad, Bull experienced the earliest years in North Bay, Ontario, of his life mixed with tragedy and solitude. “The being who was without a home” was his way of saying that he lost his parents at a very young period and subsequently wrote a dissertation in the area of aeronautical engineering which earned him a doctorate degree from the University of Toronto. Though he only graduated with average grades, his photographic memory, creative and technical thinking, as well as his day-dreaming nature, were real strengths of him. It was this Diamond that earned him the nickname "Boy Rocket Scientist".

Bull's desire to experiment with superguns hit him when he known German woman who lend him her the copies of her unknown manuscript about the Super Gun which Germans used during the World War I. This incident just ignited his passion to know about those dangerous and prohibited types of weapons and, afterwards, Bull started to be working on those secret projects.

In the early 1960s, Bull worked together with both Canadian and U. S. governments on gun technology that would use the supergun idea and make satellites scattered in space. But he discovered this when he experienced the crisis of the Vietnam War, which distorted the research project's financial support. Undeterred by this, Bulll once again turns to unorthodox methods to finance his research by engaging into the business of illegal arms exportation which is going on with South Africa , and this is all with the purpose of fulfilling his outlandish plans which is,the “supergun".

Spencer was known to be unfazed by the legal issues, Bron necessarily formed the Space Research Corporation of Quebec to continue his investigation into space. He not only earned the trust of normal people but also ranked the attention of Saddam Hussein who happened to view Bull's designs as special tools to increase the military capabilities of Iraq during the Iraq-Iran war.