Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corridors of French power, there was also a sense of relief that the Iraqi reactor was gone, although diplomats were sharply opposed to the Israeli tactics Foreign Minister Cheysson had already declared that "we Socialists would never have signed this [nuclear] contract. At least not without a clearer idea of Iraqi intentions. And not without clearer guarantees that it could be used only for peaceful purposes." Paris would likely demand much tougher restrictions for the reactor if asked to rebuild...
...mass meeting in Tripoli, Libya strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, took precisely that stance. With Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat present, Gaddafi declared that "Israel made it legitimate for us to destroy the Israel reactor...
...Israel has scored a number of brilliant military successes, and it clearly added to that number last week. But while feats of arms have brought survival they have not brought peace. As the dust settled in the Iraqi desert and the fires guttered out in the smashed nuclear reactor in Tammuz, Israel was not about to be abandoned by its friends, especially the U.S. Yet there was a growing international feeling that the embattled nation must try harder to make an accommodation with its Arab neighbors if it is ever to enjoy the true security that it has pursued with...
...sortie rankled European governments as well. Most ruffled were the French, who supplied the Iraqis with the reactor, who lost a technician as the only reported casualty of the raid and whose newly elected Socialist President, François Mitterrand, had declared his willingness to strengthen ties with Israel. Said French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "I am saddened. This government has a great deal of sympathy for Israel, but we don't think such action serves the cause of peace in the area." In her typically blunt fashion, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher summed up the view of many others: "Armed...
...predict that the Iraqis would be capable of producing atom bombs within four to six years. In September 1975, a Lebanese newspaper article quoted Hussein as saying that the nuclear program was "the first Arab attempt toward nuclear arming, although the official declared purpose of construction of the reactor is not nuclear weapons." A similar statement was made in 1977 by Naim Haddad, a member of Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council. Said Haddad: "The Arabs must get a bomb." In the face of such statements, the Israelis were not reassured by the fact that Iraq had signed the nuclear...