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Article: PAKISTAN: US-IRAN, ISRAEL, INDIA AND PAKISTAN BY IKRAM SEHGAL.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- April 25, 2006
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On June 7, 1981, Israeli F-15s and F-16s took off from Etzion airbase near Eilat at 4:00 pm, at 5:35 pm, in an action lasting less than 80 seconds, the nuclear reactor at Osirik being built with French assistance was left in ruins. Osirik would have given Saddam Hussain an Iraqi bomb in less than 10 years. After the Osirik raid, nations, (among them India, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, South Africa, etc) developing nuclear weapons through clandestine means dispersed their nuclear facilities and buried them deep in secret locations, making it all that much harder for an Osirik-type "solution". On the other hand the development of Stealth aircraft, cruise missiles, ...