Re: [iwar] [fc:Israel.prevented.atomic.disaster.in.1981]

From: Tony Bartoletti (azb@llnl.gov)
Date: 2001-11-05 15:04:28


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At 06:39 PM 11/4/01 -0800, you wrote:
>                               George Will
>                           November 1, 2001
>                Israel prevented atomic disaster in 1981

[snip]

>  The F-16s were
>to be tested to their limits when Israel learned that Iraq was about
>to receive a shipment of enriched uranium for its reactor near
>Baghdad--enough uranium to build four or five Hiroshima-size bombs.
>The reactor was 600 miles from Israel.

[snip]

>Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the attack to occur before the
>uranium arrived and the reactor went ``hot," at which point bombing
>would have scattered radioactive waste over Baghdad. The raid was
>scheduled for a Sunday, to minimize casualties. It was executed
>perfectly. Aren't we glad. Now.

Very curious.  The Iraqi were "about to receive a shipment of enriched 
uranium".

 From where?  Who was supplying these materials?  Was the supplier 
performing a "legitimate act" in making these material available?  It would 
seem they were not, since the facility itself was not.

And if not, why would bombing the power reactor (plausibly legitimate use 
of enriched uranium) act to prevent the shipment itself and its diversion?

Why not bomb the country(s) supplying the material?

By extension, should we preemptively bomb Pakistani and Indian nuclear 
facilities?

Won't we be glad?  Later?

Curious.

____tony____


Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881 <azb@llnl.gov>
Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94551-9900





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