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Two sections of Big Babylon that have been bolted together at Royal Armouries, Fort Nelson, Portsmouth. Project Babylon was a space gun project commissioned by then Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. It involved building a series of "superguns". The design was based on research from the 1960s Project HARP led by the Canadian artillery expert ...
Babylon was an ancient city located on the ... Esarhaddon hastened to rebuild the old city and make it ... the Ba'athist government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein ...
Operation Opera (Hebrew: מִבְצָע אוֹפֵּרָה), [1] also known as Operation Babylon, [2] was a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor located 17 kilometres (11 miles; 9.2 nautical miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.
The façade of the lowest level and the monumental staircase were rebuilt under the orders of Saddam Hussein. [11] The rebuilt ziggurat was damaged in the Gulf War in 1991 by small arms fire, and the structure was shaken by explosions. [12] Four bomb craters can be seen nearby, and the walls of the ziggurat are marred by over 400 bullet holes. [13]
Gerald Vincent Bull (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990 [1]) was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery.He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq.
Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Ishtar gate. The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon (in the area of present-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq).It was constructed c. 569 BC [1] by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the city.
Doomsday Gun is a 1994 television film produced by HBO, dramatizing the life of Canadian supergun designer Dr. Gerald Bull and his involvement in Project Babylon, Saddam Hussein's plan to build a supergun with a range of over 500 miles (800 km).
The ruins of Babylon have suffered greatly due to looting and destructive policies. Parts of Nebuchadnezzar's palace and some of the old city walls still remain. Saddam Hussein commissioned a restoration of ancient Babylon on part of the site.