| Description | Folder of presscuttings and telex reports on the role of France and Brazil in building Iraq's nuclear reactor. Cuttings from titles including The Telegraph, Tehran Times, Washington Post, Le Monde, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times and Guardian cover topics such as Brazilian supply of uranium to Iraq, predictions (in 1980) of A-bomb capability for Iraq by 1985, the murder in Paris of a nuclear physicist working for Iraq (June 1980), criticism of France's decision to rebuild a nuclear reactor for Iraq to replace the one at Osirak destroyed by Israeli air strikes, President Mitterand's criticism of Israeli PM Menachem Begin for ordering the attack, and French assurance of close controls over Iraq's nuclear project (1981-84), reports of bomb attacks in Paris linked to Iranian groups opposed to the Iraqi nuclear programme, details of special precautions to protect French workers on Iraqi nuclear installations, and Iranian views on the extent of French involvement in Iraq's nuclear programme. |