Raid on the Sun: Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb

The first authorized inside account of one of the most daring-and successful-military operations in recent history

From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein had vowed to destroy Israel. So when France sold Iraq a top-of-the-line nuclear reactor in 1975, the Israelis were justifiably concerned-especially when they discovered that Iraqi scientists had already formulated a secret program to extract weapons-grade plutonium from the reactor, a first critical step in creating an a...