The Nuclear Shame: Indira Gandhis Veto Killed Covert India-Israel Plan To Bomb Pakistans Kahuta Reactor, Claims Ex-CIA Officer

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39% : Declassified accounts indicate that the pre-emptive air strike was allegedly planned on the heels of Israel's successful 1981 strike against Iraq's Osirak reactor.
35% : A former CIA counterproliferation officer named Richard Barlow has disclosed that a secret joint operation proposed by India and Israel to bomb Pakistan's clandestine Kahuta nuclear facility in the early 1980s was ultimately spiked by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
25% : " He went on to suggest that any such strike would have faced stiff opposition in the United States under President Ronald Reagan, particularly if Israel was involved Afghan Conflict: The then administration of the US relied heavily on Pakistan for its covert war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

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