reactor from France. While Iraq and France maintained that the reactor, named Osirak by the French, was intended for peaceful scientific research, the Israelis...

invasion of Iran, it was a surprise attack against the under-construction Osirak nuclear reactor, which was located 17 kilometres (11 miles) to the southeast...

Tammuz (Babylonian calendar), a month in the Babylonian calendar Tammuz 1 or Osirak, formerly a nuclear reactor in Iraq Tamuz (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

Begin in June 1981, following Israel's attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor Osirak in Operation Opera. The doctrine remains a feature of Israeli security planning...

Iranian intelligence that helped it carry out Operation Opera against Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor. The nuclear reactor was a central component of Iraq's nuclear...

and 160 feet (50 m) high, and contained the French-built research reactor Osirak, destroyed by Israel in 1981. Israel contended that there was a secret underground...

bombed the Osirak reactor on 7 June 1981, provoking considerable anger from French officials and the United Nations Security Council. The Osirak deal became...

employment in a significant air-to-ground operation. This raid severely damaged Osirak, an Iraqi nuclear reactor under construction near Baghdad, to prevent the...

2018-01-01 at the Wayback Machine. Bibliography Whitney Raas and Austin Long, Osirak Redux? Assessing Israeli Capabilities to Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities...

assistance. The first Iraqi nuclear reactor was named by the French "Osirak". Osirak was destroyed on 7 June 1981 by an Israeli air strike (Operation Opera)...

engineer in the process and causing France to pull out of Osirak. The decommissioning of Osirak has been cited as causing a substantial delay to Iraqi acquisition...

discontinued). In 1981, Israel had bombed a nuclear reactor being constructed in Osirak, Iraq, in what it called an attempt to halt Iraq's previous nuclear arms...

Operation Opera was a single eight-ship Israeli airstrike against the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor, criticized by world opinion but not leading to a general...

on Iraq's nuclear facility at Osirak as examples of the counterproliferation self-help paradigm. Regarding the Osirak attack, Roberts noted that at the...

befitting the term. Israel's 1981 bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor Osirak is considered a prime example of a surgical strike. The 1986 bombing of...

in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Begin authorized the bombing of the Osirak nuclear plant in Iraq and the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 to fight PLO strongholds...

air force pilots who took part in Operation Opera, the attack on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor. Shafir served as commander of Israel's Flight school at...

Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center near Baghdad, which was the site of the Osirak Nuclear Reactor that was attacked by the Iranian Air Force in 1980 and again...

imported by Iran originated from Israel. On 7 June 1981, Israel bombed Iraq's Osirak Nuclear Reactor with Iranian intelligence support. Israel's motivations...

direct support to Iran's war effort when it bombed and destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in Operation Babylon. The nuclear reactor was considered...

(reactor) [fr], a nuclear reactor operated by CEA Saclay Osyris, a genus of plants Osirak, an Iraqi nuclear reactor based on the French-designed Osiris reactor This...

Islamic Revolution. On 30 June 1981 the Israeli air force destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor that France was building for Iraq. Three weeks later, Begin...

has media related to GBU-28. Raas, Whitney; Long, Austin (April 2006), Osirak Redux? Assessing Israeli Capabilities to Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities...

Between 1978 and 1981, obtained highly sensitive information about Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor by recruiting an Iraqi nuclear scientist in France. Operation...

setbacks due to the Israeli destruction of the experimental reactor at Osirak in June 1981 and a massive accidental explosion at Al Qa'Qaa in August 1989...

April 2007. "The Times-News - Google News Archive Search". Grant, Rebecca. "Osirak and Beyond." Archived 11 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine Air Force Magazine...

September 13, 2009". Haaretz. Retrieved September 1, 2011. "Factfile: How Osirak was bombed". BBC News. June 5, 2006. Retrieved May 5, 2010. Konikov, Zvi...

included Operation Scorch Sword, an attack by two F-4s against the Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor site near Baghdad on 30 September 1980, and the attack on...

Pilot Weapon Shot down aircraft 7 June 1981 Amos Yadlin Mark 84 Bomb Iraqi Osirak nuclear reactor 21 April 1982 Zeev Raz AIM-9 Sidewinder Syrian MiG-23 9...

killing between 500 and 800. June 7 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor, killing ten Iraqi troops and a French technician. June...