To mark Law Day 1990,
at Ada'. Shalom Synagogue
you are invited to hear
Internationally known author,
lecturer and commentator
Allan A. Ryan, Jr.
in discussion of
behind in the nuclear arms
race. ,,
At the same time, the pro-
government Egyptian week-
ly, Mayo, appeared to con-
firm Israeli press reports
that Egypt, in cooperation
with Argentina, Pakistan
and Iraq, was developing a
20-megawatt nuclear reactor
capable of producing suffi-
cient weapons-grade mate-
rial to manufacture nuclear
weapons.
The magazine quoted
Egyptian Energy Minister
Maher Abaza as saying that
Egypt's nuclear research
program was being con-
ducted openly under the
supervision of the Interna-
tional Atomic Energy Agen-
cy and that Egypt was a
signatory of the Vienna-
based Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty.
Observers, however, noted
cynically that Baghdad had
also signed the treaty and
that Iraq is, indeed, a mem-
ber of the organization's
board of governors.
The revelation of Egypt's
progress down the path of
nuclear capability came
shortly after Israel launched
its surveillance satellite
Ofek-2, and was a chilling
echo of the sharp outburst by
senior Egyptian military
strategist Major-General
Ahmed Nabil Ibrahim
Suddenly, the
Palestinian
uprising has been
reduced to a
sideshow as the
Arab world, for the
first time in almost
20 years, believes
it is a match for
Israel once again.
following Israel's September
1988 launch of Ofek-1.
At that time, Ibrahim
called on Arab states to co-
operate in developing a
nuclear capability: "Israel
certainly possesses nuclear
weapons," he asstYrted, "and
since [Israel] remains the
Arabs' arch enemy, we have
no choice but to obtain a
nuclear deterrent."
The Iraqi threat was given
an additional twist even
more recently when British
Customs officials seized
eight massive steel pipes as
they were about to be loaded
aboard the Gur Mariner,
which had been chartered by
the Iraqi Maritime Organ-
ization and was bound for
the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr.
The pipes had been
manufactured by the British
engineering company, Shef-
field Forgemasters, and
were ostensibly intended for
use in Iraq's petro-chemical
industry. However, a five-
hour examination by British
weapons experts revealed
that, fitted together, the
pipes could have served as
the barrel of a giant
1,000mm gun.
Once assembled, the gun
would have been the largest
device of its kind ever pro-
duced — more than four
times larger than the largest
artillery pieces in either the
NATO or Warsaw pact
arsenals.
According to one British
armaments expert, the gun
could have been used to
deliver either nuclear
weapons or chemical shells,
each containing up to two
tons of nerve agent, over a
range of some 1,000 miles,
thus placing Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv within comfortable
range.
While British Customs of-
ficials might have been suc-
cessful in seizing the Iraqi-
bound nuclear triggering
devices and super- gun, it is
unlikely that these events
will have caused more than
momentary irritation in
Baghdad.
Nor is it likely that Israel
can repeat its feat of June
1981, when crack Israeli
pilots destroyed Iraq's
nuclear reactor at Osirak,
just three months before it
was scheduled to go "hot"
and start producing
weapons-grade fuel.
Today, Iraq's chemical,
biological and nuclear
facilities are spread about
the country in a number of
different sites and are heav-
ily defended by the most
sophisticated anti-aircraft
missile systems.
Moreover, it is also unlike-
ly that Israel would risk call-
ing Saddam Hussein's bluff
following the Iraqi leader's
threat to unleash Iraq's
binary chemical weapons
and destroy half of Israel if
another attack was mounted
on Iraq's military installa-
tions.
Israel has, to be sure, made
dramatic progress on the
U.S.- funded Arrow anti-
missile system, which is be-
ing developed in the context
of the Strategic Defense In-
itiative (SDI). ❑
Bringing Nazi War Criminals to Justice:
Legal and Moral Issues in our Free Society
with thoughts and comments by
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn
at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 1
Adat Shalom Law Day Committee
Martin J. Adelman
Julius E. Men
Irwin M. Alterman
Richard J. Barr
Nancy W. Barr
Henry Baskin
Robert A. Berlow
Jack H. Bindes
Cheryl D Bloom
James D Bloom
Saul Bluestone
Frederick S. Bluford
Keith B. Braun
Gerald S. Cook
Barbara P. Cook
Clifford 1 Dovitz
Michael J. Eizelman
Robert Z. Feldstein
Jeffrey Fishman
Frederick a Gold
Joel S. Golden
Gary A. Goldin
Barry J. Goodman
Albert L Holtz
Judith A. Holtz
Norman Hyman
Jonathan M. Jaffa
Robert D Katchke
Alan L Kaufman
Hon. Ira G. Kaufman
Karen Knopper
Allen M. Krass
Roger H. Leemis
Morris B. Lefkowitz
Irving Lichtman
David J. Lieberman
Arthur Y. Liss
Robert F. Liss
Gerald M. Lorence
Paul S. Magy
Martin M. Miller
Shelley Mishal
Cyril Moscow
Allan Nachman
Randall E. Phillips
Melvin M. Raznick
Ronald H. Riback
Michael A. Robbins
Barry M. Rosenbaum
Robert F. Rubin
Jerome Sabbota
Arnold S. Schafer
Donald H. Scharg
Jack. M. Schultz
Michael a Serling
Aliso A.
Peskin-Shepherd
Paul D Sherr
Larry R. Shulman
Samuel Simmer
Max E. Simon
Stuart Sinai
Ronald A. Sollish
Nancy Sollish
Anthony S. Spokojny
Milton Spokojny
Henry Starkman
Barry A. Steinway
Laurel A. Stuart
Mark L Teicher
Julie a Teicher
Charles R. Thav
Asher N. Tilchin
Richard S. Victor
David Wein
Louis L Weinstein
Arthur A. Weiss
Hadley J. Wine
Lawrence A. Wolfe
Harvey J. Zameck
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