A gripping investigation into the role of Western democracies in arming the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, with weapons of mass destruction. Based on previously unseen archive material and exclusive interviews with French and Iraqi leaders, US senators and Iraqi nuclear scientists, the film exposes how politicians lied to their electorates to secure lucrative military contracts with a regime known to be massacring civilians. The Islamic Revolution in Iran intensified the race to sell Hussein the most sophisticated instruments of mass slaughter on the market. These included virus strains and guided missiles from the US, and the means to make toxic gas and nuclear weapons courtesy of France and Germany. A chilling illustration of the complex web of collusion that underpins the international arms industry.