- Revisiting The Osiraq Attack
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- The 1981 attack by Israel on Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor
complex has become an archetype of "counterproliferation," the
use of force to prevent or reverse the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction.
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- The Osiraq attack is reviewed in a recent Masters thesis
based on interviews with Israeli officials and a study of some more or
less unfamiliar source documents.
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- The author concludes generally that the attack did indeed
slow down the Iraqi WMD program, but that it had other less favorable unintended
consequences, had no deterrent effect, and is unlikely to serve as a useful
model for similar actions in the future.
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- See "Israel's Attack on Osiraq: A Model for Future
Preventive Strikes?" by Peter Scott Ford, Naval Postgraduate School
Masters Thesis, September 2004:
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- http://www.fas.org/man/eprint/ford.pdf
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