!! History Commons Alert, Exciting News Profile: Hewlett Packard
Hewlett Packard was a participant or observer in the following events: US and British companies are among several Western firms that sell Iraq materials that can be used to develop nuclear, chemical, biological, and conventional weapons. [Associated Press, 12/21/2002; New York Times, 12/21/2002; Washington Post, 12/30/2002; San Francisco Chronicle, 1/26/2003; Sunday Herald (Glasgow), 2/23/2003] United States -
Biological: American Type Culture Collection, several biological precursor agents for diseases like anthrax, gangrene, and the West Nile virus; Alcolac International, Thiodiglycol, the mustard gas precursor; Al Haddad, 60 tons of a chemical that could be used to make sarin; Dow Chemical, $1.5 million of pesticides (see December 1988). [Die Tageszeitung (Berlin), 10/18/2002; New York Times, 12/21/2002; Washington Post, 12/30/2002]
Nuclear: TI Coating; UNISYS; Tektronix; Leybold Vacuum Systems; Finnigan-MAT-US; Hewlett Packard; Dupont; Consarc; Cerberus (LTD) ; Canberra Industries; Axel Electronics Inc. [Die Tageszeitung (Berlin), 10/18/2002; Z Magazine, 10/29/2002]
Rocket Program: Honeywell ;TI Coating; UNISYS; Honeywell; Semetex; Sperry Corp.; Tektronix; Hewlett Packard; Eastman Kodak; Electronic Associates; EZ Logic Data Systems, Inc. [Die Tageszeitung (Berlin), 10/18/2002; Z Magazine, 10/29/2002]
Conventional weapons: Honeywell; Spektra Physics; TI Coating; UNISYS; Sperry Corp.; Rockwell; Hewlett Packard; Carl Zeis -U.S; Union Carbide. [Die Tageszeitung (Berlin), 10/18/2002; Z Magazine, 10/29/2002; Washington Post, 12/30/2002; San Francisco Chronicle, 1/26/2003] United Kingdom -
: Nuclear weapons: Euromac Ltd-UK.; C Plath-Nuclear; Endshire Export Marketing; International Computer Systems; MEED International; International Computer Limited; Matrix Churchill Corp.; Ali Ashour Daghir.; Inwako; XYY Options, Inc. [Sunday Herald (Glasgow), 2/23/2003]
Chemical weapons: MEED International; International Computer Systems; International Military Services; Sheffield Forgemasters; Technology Development Group; International Signal and Control; Terex Corporation; Walter Somers Ltd. [Sunday Herald (Glasgow), 2/23/2003]
Conventional: International Computer Systems; International Computer Limited; TMG Engineering. [Sunday Herald (Glasgow), 2/23/2003] Entity Tags: Rockwell, Matrix Churchill Corp., MEED International, Technology Development Group, Inwako, Leybold Vacuum Systems, Semetex, International Signal and Control, Sheffield Forgemasters, Tektronix, Sperry Corp., XYY Options, Inc., Walter Somers Ltd., Union Carbide, UNISYS, Terex Corporation, Spektra Physics, TMG Engineering, International Military Services, International Computer Systems, TI Coating, Honeywell, Carl Zeis -U.S, Canberra Industries, C Plath-Nuclear, Axel Electronics Inc., American Type Culture Collection, Al Haddad, Alcolac International, Ali Ashour Daghir, Cerberus (LTD), International Computer Limited, Dow Chemical, Euromac Ltd-UK, Finnigan-MAT-US, Hewlett Packard, Consarc, Endshire Export Marketing, Eastman Kodak, Electronic Associates, Dupont, EZ Logic Data Systems, Inc. Timeline Tags: Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, US-Iraq 1980s
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