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Cargando... Raid on the Sun: Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bombpor Rodger Claire
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It's scarcely believable that the Israelis managed to pull off this operation. It's also odd that Israel allowed so much of this information to be declassified. It's also quite a neat trick of the writer to have elicited such fascinating emotions from those involved, in addition to incredible details that went into this (the operation and the book). The actual attack run elicits the same visceral response to the Rebel Fleet's attack run on the Death Star: positively heart-pounding. Rodger Claire's story of how Israel denied Saddam Hussein the atomic bomb in 1981 reads better than many spy thrillers. Author Claire smoothly sets the stage in explaining the genesis of the book, providing a brief history of Saddam Hussein's childhood and rise to power, the failed diplomacy, and the assassinations of scientists and destruction of vital equipment by Israeli agents before the F-16s were sent to bomb the Osirak nuclear facility in Al-Tuwaitha just south of Baghdad, Iraq. The book includes a map, a helpful table of abbreviations and several meaningful pictures. On more than one occasion, I reviewed the map of the region that provides a graphic depiction of the Osirak attack route, neighboring countries, major cities, rivers and bodies of water. The story is well told. However, I would have appreciated more detail about France's assistance with Iraq's nuclear program and the economic details of the relationship. Also, a final chapter that summarized the believed progress of Iraq's nuclear program over the succeeding two plus decades would have been interesting. In the "it made me chuckle" category is a reference in the first edition on page 151 to "her in-laws" when "his" is intended. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein had vowed to destroy Israel. So when France sold Iraq a top-of-the-line nuclear reactor in 1975, the Israelis were justifiably concerned. The reactor formed the heart of a huge nuclear plant situated twelve miles from Baghdad, 1,100 kilometers from Tel Aviv. By 1981, the reactor was on the verge of becoming "hot," and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin knew he would have to confront its deadly potential. He turned to Israeli Air Force commander General David Ivry to secretly plan a daring surgical strike on the reactor -- a never-before-contemplated mission that would prove to be one of the most remarkable military operations of all time. Written with the full and exclusive cooperation of Israeli Air Force high command, General Ivry (ret.), and all of the eight mission pilots, Raid on the Sun tells the extraordinary story of how Israel plotted the unthinkable: defying its U.S. and European allies to eliminate Iraq's nuclear threat. Claire recreates a gripping tale of personal sacrifice and survival, of young pilots who faced a nearly unsurmountable challenge: how to fly the 1,000-plus-kilometer mission to Baghdad and back on one tank of fuel. He recounts Israeli intelligence's incredible "black ops" to sabotage constructions on the French reactor and eliminate Iraqi nuclear scientists, and he offers a pilot's eye-eye view of the action on June 7, 1981, when the planes roared off a runway on the Sinai Peninsula for the first successful destruction of a nuclear reactor in history. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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