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From: "Mandeep Singh Bajwa" <bajwa@i91.net.in>
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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:59:01 +0530
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Subject: Re: [iwar] [fc:Israel.prevented.atomic.disaster.in.1981]
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Bomb Indian nuclear facilities ? Perish the thought ! Indian nuclear weapons are in safe hands. The deeply entrenched and solid tradition of democracy in India has produced governments with a deep sense of responsibility. Rest assured India's nuclear programme is only a defensive weapon.
Pakistan is of course a different case. Democracy exists only in name and there is a long history of adventurism as much by dictatorial regimes as by the few and far between examples of democratically elected governments. In any case Pakistan's duplicity in the matter of support to the Taliban and other fundamentalist outfits while professing to be a supporter of the US-led coalition against terrorism is now not a matter of conjecture but a documented fact.
The sooner the US realises that India and not Pakistan is the long term bulwark against fundamentalism in South Asia the sooner the region's stability will be strengthened.
Mandeep Singh Bajwa
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Military Affairs Group
The Defence and Strategic Studies and Military History People
Chandigarh, India
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Bartoletti
To: iwar@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:34 AM
Subject: Re: [iwar] [fc:Israel.prevented.atomic.disaster.in.1981]
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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