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Originally Posted by Tactitus
And yet Egypt and Syria did just that--they attacked Israel in 1973 (Israel had the bomb by the late '60s, possibly even at the time of the Six-Day war but certainly by the time of the Yom Kippur war). One should never count on one's enemies being in their right minds (especially, I think, in the middle east). :/
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Just because they didn't use it doesn't mean they weren't prepared to. Both wars 'turned good' for them, but this could easily not have been the case.