Israel’s plan to kill more than a dozen of Iran’s top nuclear scientists all at once was the culmination of a decade and a half of stalking and targeting — and seemed so far-fetched, it was dubbed “Operation Narnia.

Israel killed more than 30 senior security officials and 11 senior nuclear scientists to deliver a major blow to Iran's nuclear ambitions, a senior Israeli military official said on Friday in summarizing Israel's 12-day air war with Iran.