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 YOU NEED A VACATION .. . 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