Could this really have been because Israel was testing nuclear weapons, or something else?It was basically an open secret at the time that Israel wanted nukes and had the means. It doesn't seem worth it over just that.But what else could it have been? some other paradigm of weaponry?
>>532788545USS Stark (FFG-31) was a guided-missile frigate of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1982 and decommissioned in 1999. It is most known for the tragic incident on May 17, 1987, when it was struck by two Iraqi Exocet missiles during the Iran-Iraq War, resulting in the deaths of 37 sailors.
