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...reactor because the government had learned that the Iraqis were about to use it to make atomic bombs to attack Israel. The text pointed out that Iraq had accepted the International Atomic Energy Agency's inspection safeguards and urged Israel to open its own nuclear facilities to IAEA inspectors. Unlike Iraq, Israel has not signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, which would require it to allow visits by the IAEA. Israel argues that the treaty is meaningless unless peace is established in the Middle East and fears that the international inspectors could acquire a dangerous degree of access...
...Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Sigvard Eklund, whose agency was responsible for monitoring the installation, declared that IAEA's inspections made it all but impossible for Iraqi technicians to carry out secret activities. Eklund asserted that any such effort "would be detected with very high probability" by IAEA inspectors or French technicians on the site...
Eklund's view that IAEA inspectors could discover nuclear chicanery was disputed in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Roger Richter, an American married to an Israeli, who resigned last week as an inspector for the international agency. Richter, who had been assigned to cover the area including Iraq but had never personally inspected the Tammuz reactor, said that the Iraqis could have concealed bombmaking efforts during IAEA inspection visits. Richter also said he believed the Iraqis wanted to make bombs within five years...
...nation that had signed the 1968 nonproliferation treaty, only to decide that it wanted a nuclear weapon after all, would have to conceal its operations from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a Vienna-based affiliate of the U.N. The agency's inspectors are often on hand when nuclear fuel is loaded into a reactor. They install sealed closed-circuit TV cameras for continuous on-site monitoring, and they return periodically to check this equipment. Still, the IAEA's inspectors do not always get to see what they would like in member countries. For a time during...
...deal for a reactor designed to burn such weapons-grade fuel. The reactor Iraq acquired from France would have used 93% enriched U-235. During the course of operation, some of this material might be skimmed off for nuclear weaponry, although that would be a risky proposition. The IAEA inspectors might spot the diversion, or some of the foreign technicians at the site might blow the whistle on the schemers...