Apparently warned by the Italian prime minister, Karadžić and all military and civilian leaders of Republika Srpska had already retreated to a bunker near Han Pijesak at 11 pm on August 29, 1995. The NATO intervention - though this was the tenth such act since the start of the war, this was the first significant one in its history - did not surprise the Pale leadership in anything other than scope. The city was surrounded by a ring of explosions and fires that lit up the sky as if it were daytime, illuminating the huge piles of smoke resembling mushroom clouds over the nearby hills. Just before 4 am, the 38 Rapid Reaction Force grenade launchers positioned around Mount Igman also began firing, launching some 600 20-kilogram projectiles at the Lukavica barracks, Golo Brdo trenches and other strategic targets under Serb control. The Serbs responded, but were largely helpless against NATO airplanes, which also hit and badly damaged the Pretis ammunition factory, even though the facilities were largely underground. With up-to-date information on the weak points of the Serb air defences, they were able to hit strategic targets (integrated air defence systems, including radar, surface-to-air missiles and communication centres) around Sarajevo and Pale with a high degree of precision without suffering any losses. Sixty NATO bomber planes took off from Italian airbases and USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Adriatic, striking Serb posts in three waves in accordance with a plan months in the making and based on photographs and information collected by the Sarajevo government with state-of-the-art American equipment. Operation Deliberate Force was launched on August 30, 1995, citing Security Council Resolution 836 of June 1993.

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