Editing Gerald Bull (section)

{{short description|Canadian artillery engineer and entrepreneur (1928–1990)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Gerald Bull
| image             =
| image_size        = 
| alt               = Monochrome photograph of a man in a suit
| caption           = Bull at the Space Research Institute of McGill University in 1964
| birth_name        = Gerald Vincent Bull
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1928|03|09}}
| birth_place       = [[North Bay, Ontario]], Canada
| death_date        = {{death date|1990|03|22}} (aged 62)
| death_place       = [[Uccle|Uccle, Brussels]], Belgium
| death_cause       = [[Gunshot wound]]s
| fields            = [[Ballistics]]
| workplaces        = [[McGill University]]<br/>[[Canadian Armament and Research Development Establishment]]<br/>[[Space Research Corporation]]
| alma_mater        = [[University of Toronto]]
| thesis_year       = 1951
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Gordon Patterson]]
| known_for         = [[Weapon]]s development<br/>[[Project HARP]]<br/>[[Project Babylon]]
| spouse            = Noemi "Mimi" Gilbert (m. 1954)
| children          = 7
}}

'''Gerald Vincent Bull''' (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/25/obituaries/gerald-bull-62-shot-in-belgium-scientist-who-violated-arms-law.html|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Joseph P.|last=Fried|title=Gerald Bull, 62, Shot in Belgium; Scientist Who Violated Arms Law|date=March 25, 1990}}</ref>) was a Canadian<!-- granted citizenship by an Act of Congress, see <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tina|first=Starr|date=October 2009|title=Life and Work at Space Research|journal=[[Vermont's Northland Journal]]|volume=8|issue=7|page=7}}</ref> --> engineer who developed long-range [[artillery]]. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a [[satellite]] using a [[space gun|huge artillery piece]], to which end he designed the [[Project Babylon]] "[[Supergun affair|supergun]]" for [[Saddam Hussein]]'s government in Iraq.

Bull was [[assassin]]ated outside his apartment in [[Brussels]], [[Belgium]], in March 1990.<ref name="NYT1990">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/26/magazine/the-man-behind-iraq-s-supergun.html?pagewanted=1|title=The Man Behind Iraq's Supergun|last=Toolis|first=Kevin|date=August 26, 1990|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=April 3, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Harmon|first=Christopher C.|title=Terrorism today|publisher=Routledge|year=2007|page=43|isbn=978-0-415-77300-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jAjg-Kc9VcAC|access-date=March 18, 2016}}</ref><ref name=II>{{cite news|title=State assassins who put 007 in the shade|url=http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/state-assassins-who-put-007-inthe-shade-2071971.html|date=February 20, 2010|access-date=February 20, 2010|newspaper=Irish Independent}}</ref><ref name="Are Assassinations Ever Legal? – slate.com">{{cite web|title=Are Assassinations Ever Legal?|author=Lapidos, Juliet|work=Slate|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2222843|access-date=July 15, 2009|date=July 14, 2009}}</ref><ref name="Shades of Supergun Evoke Hussein's Thirst for Arms – The New York Times">{{cite news|title=Shades of Supergun Evoke Hussein's Thirst for Arms|newspaper=The New York Times|author=Glanz, James|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/world/middleeast/10supergun.html?pagewanted=print|access-date=February 15, 2010|date=February 15, 2010}}</ref> His assassination is believed to be the work of the [[Mossad]] over his work for the [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]]i government.<ref name=mossad>{{cite news |last1=Raviv|first1=Dan |last2=Melman|first2= Yossi |date=27 May 2016 |title=The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman|url=https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/the-strange-case-of-a-nazi-who-became-a-mossad-hitman-1.5423137 |work=[[Haaretz]] |location=Tel Aviv |access-date=3 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://tnsr.org/2023/06/the-origins-of-the-iraqi-invasion-of-kuwait-reconsidered |title=The Origins of the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait Reconsidered |date=29 June 2023 |access-date=11 August 2023 |last1=Chardell |first1=Daniel |website=[[Texas National Security Review]] |publisher=[[University of Texas at Austin]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812231720/https://tnsr.org/2023/06/the-origins-of-the-iraqi-invasion-of-kuwait-reconsidered/ |archive-date=12 August 2023 |language=en |url-status=live}}</ref> No person has ever been charged with his murder.