Pakistan’s Precedent-Setting Role in Today’s Nuclear Problems, and Israel’s Attempts to Counter It
Washington tolerated Islamabad’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for nonexistent counterterrorism support.
March 8, 2022
Pakistan’s Precedent-Setting Role in Today’s Nuclear Problems, and Israel’s Attempts to Counter It
Washington tolerated Islamabad’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for nonexistent counterterrorism support.
With Iran on its way to obtaining nuclear weapons—perhaps regardless of whether a deal is concluded in Vienna—it may well be up to the Jewish state to stop it. Israel already prevented both Iraq and Syria from obtaining nuclear weapons with now well-documented airstrikes. So far, it has reportedly favored clandestine measures to slow the Islamic Republic’s path to the bomb. Oved Lobel calls to attention to new information about another covert campaign, in the 1980s, to nip Pakistan’s nuclear program in the bud—which came close to using bomber jets as well:
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