As Iraq moved to complete the Osirak reactor by the early 1980’s, Israel applied diplomatic pressure and actions against foreign nuclear vendors, sabotaged atomic exports, and assassinated Iraqi scientists, before finally settling on the June 1981 air strike on the plant. In the Syrian case, with one caveat, Israel decided to dispense with the preliminaries and simply destroy the reactor.
尽管以色列把核弹藏得严严实实，却一直竭尽全力阻止对手拥有核武器。 20世纪80年代伊拉克建设奥西拉克反应堆的时候，以色列对其外国供应商施加外交压力并采取措施，破坏其原子武器出口，并行刺伊拉克科学家，最后决定于1981年6月空袭核工厂。 在叙利亚问题上警告过一次后，以色列决定跳过预备步骤，直接摧毁反应堆。