Decades of Nuclear Reactor Strikes Predate Ukraine Power Plant Crisis

Russia has put Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in the cross hairs of combat, but it was not the first nation to attack an operational reactor in war. That was the United States three decades ago. The American strike on an Iraqi site is part of a little-known history in which foreign attackers have fired more than a dozen times on nuclear plants not only in Iraq but Iran, Israel and Syria. Their attacks sought to end atomic bomb... + full article