Nuclear Reactor Attacks
Nuclear reactors become preferred targets during military conflict and, over the past three decades, have been repeatedly attacked during military air strikes, occupations, invasions and campaigns:
- Between 18 December 1977 and 13 June 1979 ETA carried out several attacks on Lemoniz Nuclear Power Plant in Spain while it was still under construction.
- In September 1980, Iran bombed the Al Tuwaitha nuclear complex in Iraq, in Operation Scorch Sword.
- In June 1981, an Israeli air strike completely destroyed Iraq’s Osirak nuclear research facility.
- On 8 January 1982, Umkhonto we Sizwe attacked Koeberg nuclear power plant in South Africa while it was still under construction.
- Between 1984 and 1987, Iraq bombed Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant six times.
- In Iraq in 1991, The U.S. bombed three nuclear reactors and an enrichment pilot facility.
- In 1991, Iraq launched Scud missiles at Israel’s Dimona nuclear power plant.
- In September 2003, Israel bombed a Syrian reactor under construction.
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