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Raid on the sun : inside Israel's secret campaign that denied Saddam the bomb / Rodger W. Claire.
Van Pelt Library DS119.7 .C574 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Claire, Rodger William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Iraq.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Osirak Nuclear Reactor Bombing, Iraq, 1981.
- Nuclear reactors--Iraq.
- Nuclear reactors.
- Iraq.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Broadway Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- "Raid on the Sun" is the first authorized, inside account of one of the most daring--and successful--military operations ever: Israel's 1981 surprise strike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear plant.
- Contents:
- The road to Babylon
- Terror of the Tigris
- Mission impossible
- The warriors
- The waiting
- Wheels-up
- Sixty seconds over Baghdad
- Check six
- Blowback.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0767914007
- OCLC:
- 53059132
- Online:
- Publisher description
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