JULY 1, 1968 : (IRAQ SIGNS NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY - See NPT) Iraq signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).—UN Disarmament Resources website, Status of Treaties, . via "Iraq Nuclear Weapons Program—An Annotated Chronology"
JULY 17, 1968 : (IRAQ : BAATH-LED COUP OUSTS GENERAL ARIF ; GENERAL A;-BAKR BECOMES PRESIDENT; SADDAM HUSSEIN BECOMES VICE PRESIDENT & DEPUTY HEAD OF THE RCC.) A Baath-led coup ousts General Abd-al-Rahman Muhamad Arif and Gen Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr becomes president. Saddam Hussein, a relative of Bakr, emerges as Vice President and deputy head of the Revolution Command Council (RCC).—Khidhir Hamza with Jeff Stein, Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda (New York, NY: Scribner Press, 2000), p. 48.- "Iraq Nuclear Weapons Program—An Annotated Chronology,"
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