Nuclear physicist and Antiwar.com regular Dr. Gordon Prather discusses the history of American nuclear weapons policy, how Israel’s attack on Iraq’s IAEA safeguarded Osirirk nuclear plant in 1981, drove Hussein’s program underground, the IAEA’s monitoring of Iran’s current nuclear program and Mohamed ElBaradei’s attempts to work things out, his worry that the U.S. may use nuclear weapons against Iran and that besides being a horrible slaughter it would reveal the uselessness of America’s nuclear arsenal for the whole world to see, the disloyalty of the neocons to Ronald Reagan over USSR policy, and his true motivations for writing what he writes.
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