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标题：Two Minutes over Baghdad
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作者：Amos Perlmutter ; Michael Handel ; Uri Bar-Joseph 等
期刊名称：Air & Space Power Journal
印刷版ISSN：1554-2505
出版年度：2005
卷号：19
期号：1
页码：121-123
语种：English
出版社：U.S. Air Force, Air University
摘要：In 1981 Ronald Reagan became president, Iran agreed to release American prisoners after confining them illegally for 14 months, and for some reason Time Magazine declared Hall and Oats the band of the decade. But that year also saw controversy in the Middle East after an Israeli preemptive strike on the Iraqi nuclear plant at Osirak. This aerial attack marked a pivotal moment in the history of that region, and its effects remain deeply woven into contemporary global politics. If not for this intercession by the Israelis, Iraq would have become a nuclear power before it attacked Kuwait in 1990, and some individuals believe that Saddam Hussein might have launched a nuclear strike against Iran or Israel before the twentieth century closed. It’s difficult to imagine the outcomes of the Iran-Iraq War or of Operations Desert Storm, Southern and Northern Watch, and Iraqi Freedom if Saddam had acquired nuclear weapons in the interim.