News October 19, 1990 - Update on the Standoff in the Persian Gulf

An intelligence assessment indicates that Iraq may have a nuclear weapon after dipping into a 55 pound stockpile of uranium that Iraq originally purchased form France and the Soviet Union to develop a nuclear power plant. There are questions on Iraq's nuclear program. There is a burgeoning anti-war movement in the United States to oppose military action in the Gulf. Oil crisis in Iraq as a result of economic sanctions resulting from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.