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The "Supergun" affair was a 1990 political scandal in the United Kingdom that involved two businesses, Sheffield Forgemasters and Walter Somers, Gerald Bull, (then) members of parliament Hal Miller and Nicholas Ridley, the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, a failed prosecution, and components of a "supergun" (as newspaper headlines had it) that the businesses were alleged to have been exporting to Iraq that they and others had contacted the government about in 1988.

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rdfs:comment	The "Supergun" affair was a 1990 political scandal in the United Kingdom that involved two businesses, Sheffield Forgemasters and Walter Somers, Gerald Bull, (then) members of parliament Hal Miller and Nicholas Ridley, the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, a failed prosecution, and components of a "supergun" (as newspaper headlines had it) that the businesses were alleged to have been exporting to Iraq that they and others had contacted the government about in 1988. (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Quebec United Kingdom Orbit Saddam Hussein Sheffield Forgemasters 1990 in British politics GC-45 howitzer Gerald Bull Arms-to-Iraq Superguns Yuma, Arizona 1990s controversies Project Babylon Barbados Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale Project HARP Gulf War Hal Miller Headlinese MI6 Walter Somers Matrix Churchill dbr:16%22/50_calibre_Mark_7_gun
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12673075.government-had-two-years-warning-about-iraq-supergun/%7Cdate=1994-05-07 https://archive.org/details/constitutionafte0000tomk
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has abstract	The "Supergun" affair was a 1990 political scandal in the United Kingdom that involved two businesses, Sheffield Forgemasters and Walter Somers, Gerald Bull, (then) members of parliament Hal Miller and Nicholas Ridley, the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, a failed prosecution, and components of a "supergun" (as newspaper headlines had it) that the businesses were alleged to have been exporting to Iraq that they and others had contacted the government about in 1988. The collapse of the court case preceded the Arms-to-Iraq case, that involved a different company Matrix Churchill, by four months. Canadian engineer Gerald Bull became interested in the possibility of using 'superguns' in place of rockets to insert payloads into orbit. He lobbied for the start of Project HARP to investigate this concept in the 1960s, using paired ex-US Navy barrels welded end-to-end. Three of these 16"/100 (406 mm) guns were emplaced, one in Quebec, Canada, another in Barbados, and the third near Yuma, Arizona. HARP was later cancelled, and Bull turned to military designs, eventually developing the GC-45 howitzer. Some years later, Bull interested Saddam Hussein in funding Project Babylon. The objective of this project is not certain, but one possibility is that it was intended to develop a gun capable of firing an object into orbit, from whence it could then drop onto any place on the Earth. Gerald Bull was assassinated in March 1990, terminating development, and the parts were confiscated by British customs after the Gulf War. (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	List of assassinations in Europe List of films based on actual events (before 2000) List of University of Toronto alumni Regiopolis-Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School The Afghan Sheffield Forgemasters Gerald Bull Mossad Arms-to-Iraq Project Babylon Supergun Nuclear weapons and Israel List of Israeli assassinations Restricted Enforcement Unit Iraqi Armed Forces Doomsday Gun Artillery Unfinished creative work The Fist of God
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