Saddam Hussein at a
nuclear reactor in France in 1975. Jacques Chirac is at right
in the glasses. Saddam wanted a nuclear reactor capable of
producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. France supplied its
Osiris reactor which was named Osirak (Osiris + Iraq]. It was
being erected when it was destroyed in a Sunday strike [June
7, 1981] by the Israelis, timed to save the lives of the
French scientists helping with the construction. See
Israeli tribute to the raid and to astronaut Ilan Ramon who
took part.
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