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Reagan_Administration
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Israel
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Nuclear

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. served as the Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan. He was present at a meeting of Reagan's high command following the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak in June 1981. While the State Department formally condemned the bombing, Haig was privately forbearing.1

Footnotes

  1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. ↩︎