When Preventive War Threats Work for Nuclear Nonproliferation

2018/07/03 by Matthew Fuhrmann · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Nuclear Issues and Defense

paper · doi:10.1080/0163660x.2018.1519367

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Abstract

On June 7, 1981, eight Israeli F-16 jets dropped bombs on an Iraqi nuclear reactor commonly known as Osiraq. The strike eliminated Iraq’s most critical nuclear facility before it was completed, the...

Discussions

• For further details, see my 2018 essay in @twqgw.bsky.social. The situation is different now that Israel has already attacked but some of the conclusions may still hold. doi.org/10.1080/0163... 8/8 [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]

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