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...they don't meet the letter of the law. At the start of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel, fearing that Egypt was aiming to destroy the Jewish state, devastated Egypt's air force before its pilots had scrambled their jets. In 1981 Israel bombed the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq, an incident that provoked worldwide disapproval. But given what we now know about Saddam Hussein's regime, only the most nit picking of lawyers--admittedly, a large category--would still condemn the action...
...they don't meet the letter of the law. At the start of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel, fearing that Egypt was aiming to destroy the Jewish state, devastated Egypt's air force before its pilots had scrambled their jets. In 1981 Israel bombed the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq, an incident that provoked worldwide disapproval. But given what we now know about Saddam Hussein's regime, only the most nit picking of lawyers - admittedly, a large category - would still condemn the action...
Despite the smiles at last week's summit, George Bush is unhappy that Russia has supplied Iran with reactors for a huge nuclear power complex, shown above in a January satellite photo. Experts say the reactors cannot produce weapons-grade plutonium but they will certainly improve Iran's nuclear know-how. The site, which has docks on the Persian Gulf (1), has one reactor dome completed (2) and a second rising (3), but pipes (4) for the cooling pond remain unattached. The complex is likely to come online in late...
...Moscow's refusal to stop supplying Iran - which Bush identified as a member of the "axis of evil" - with know-how that the U.S. fears could be used in Tehran's drive to develop weapons of mass destruction. The Russians, who have been helping Iran build a civilian reactor in the southwestern town of Bushehr, vehemently insist they have imposed strict controls on their exports that rule out sharing any sensitive technology. American intelligence officials disagree, though they refuse to disclose their evidence...
There is, and always has been, a potential for terrorist attacks against the nuclear industry. While hefty reactor shielding mitigates the danger of an attack, a breech could release deadly levels of radioactivity to plant employees and those nearby. But the problem is the existence of terrorism, not of nuclear power. Equal or greater dangers are posed by attacks on large dams, poisoning open-air watersheds or attacking our society’s vulnerable dependence on computer, electricity, and phone networks. To be free from terrorism, we would have to sacrifice modernity itself...