Editing Nuclear proliferation (section)

====Syria====
{{Main|Syria and weapons of mass destruction}}
On 6 September 2007, [[Israel]] bombed an officially unidentified site in Syria which it later asserted was a nuclear reactor under construction (''see [[Operation Outside the Box]]'').<ref name="Globalsecurity Airstrike">[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/070906-airstrike.htm 6 September 2007 Air strike] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025052954/http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/070906-airstrike.htm |date=25 October 2007 }} at [http://www.globalsecurity.org globalsecurity.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722053244/http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/secret-cities.htm |date=22 July 2017 }}. Retrieved 24 October 2007.</ref> The alleged reactor was not asserted to be operational and it was not asserted that nuclear material had been introduced into it.<ref name=SS2008 /> Syria said the site was a military site and was not involved in any nuclear activities.<ref name=SS2008 /> The IAEA requested Syria to provide further access to the site and any other locations where the debris and equipment from the building had been stored.<ref name=SS2008 /> Syria denounced what it called the Western "fabrication and forging of facts" in regards to the incident.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/25/content_8050478.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110204457/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/25/content_8050478.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 January 2009 |title=Syria rejects U.S. allegations on existence of nuclear activities |publisher=News.xinhuanet.com |date=25 April 2008 |access-date=15 May 2009}}</ref> IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei criticized the strikes and deplored that information regarding the matter had not been shared with his agency earlier.<ref name=IAEAHaaretz>{{cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/978043.html |title=IAEA slams U.S. for withholding data on alleged Syrian nuclear reactor |publisher=Haaretz.com |access-date=15 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080426141322/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/978043.html |archive-date=26 April 2008 }}</ref>