National Security

Assignment Baghdad: Did a Group of Grad Students Really Help Plan the Gulf War?

PAWNS IN THE GAME

When grad students were asked to collect floor plans for buildings in Baghdad in the fall of 1990, were they helping to preserve Iraqi culture—or to find targets for smart bombs?

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