In June 1981, aircraft of the Israeli Air Force bombed the Iraqi research reactor 25 km from Baghdad and put it out of action. Richard Wilson, head of the Physics Department at Harvard University, describes a recent visit.
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A visit to the bombed nuclear reactor at Tuwaitha, Iraq. Nature 302, 373–376 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/302373a0
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