Iraq's Secret Nuclear Programme
In June 1981 Israel destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq. Iraqi nuclear scientists tell Witness that attack triggered Iraq's secret nuclear programme
In June 1981 Israeli war planes destroyed Iraq's new, French-built nuclear reactor. Two senior Iraqi nuclear scientists, who were in Baghdad that day, tell Witness how the world's first air strike against a nuclear plant would trigger Iraq's secret programme to acquire nuclear weapons.
Photograph: journalists are shown a destroyed nuclear reactor at Iraq's main nuclear research centre just south of Baghdad, ten years after the Israeli attack (Credit: Ramzi Haidar/AFP/Getty Images)
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