The Bomb That Backfired - June 7, 1981
About this episode
The episode discusses the complexities surrounding Israel's 1981 strike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor and its long-term implications.
On June 7, 1981, Israel destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in a strike that was universally condemned and later widely praised. But declassified documents and captured Iraqi archives tell a more complicated story, one in which the strike may have created the very weapons program it was designed to prevent. The Begin Doctrine born that afternoon is still shaping military action today.
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