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Doomsday Gun is a 1994 television film produced by HBO, dramatizing the life of Canadian supergun designer Dr. Gerald Bull and his involvement in Project Babylon, Saddam Hussein's plan to build a supergun with a range of over 500 miles (800 km).
Weapons expert Dr. Gerald Bull is commissioned by Saddam Hussein to build a supergun capable of firing long-range missiles, but Mossad has other ideas.
A doomsday device is a hypothetical construction — usually a weapon or weapons system — which could destroy all life on a planet, particularly Earth, or destroy the planet itself, bringing "doomsday", a term used for the end of planet Earth.
Doomsday Gun. U.S. weapons expert Gerald Bull (Frank Langella) designs a gun for Saddam Hussein able to fire a missile over 1,000 miles.
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Jul 22, 1994 · Doomsday Gun. The politically biting, real-life thriller "Doomsday Gun," anchored by Frank Langella as a brilliant, cynical arms designer, is TV's first drama dealing...
Based on a true story, the Doomsday Gun is about Gerald Bull, a Canadian engineer who tries to build the largest gun in the world (capable of shooting mortar shells 1000 miles away) and then sell it to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who was at the time at war with Iran.
Jul 23, 1994 · An explosive true story. Overview. Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When an operational plan by the CIA to export sanctioned arms to apartheid-South Africa through him was exposed, the CIA denied all knowledge and he went to jail.
Doomsday Gun is a 1994 television film produced by HBO, dramatizing the life of Canadian supergun designer Dr. Gerald Bull and his involvement in Project Babylon, Saddam Hussein's plan to build a supergun with a range of over 500 miles.
Jul 23, 1994 · An explosive true story. Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When an operational plan by the CIA to export sanctioned arms to apartheid-South Africa through him was exposed, the CIA denied all knowledge and he went to jail.
