The 1990 Icelandic War, also alternatively referred to as the Irish-Icelandic Conflict or the Svalbard Conflict, was a major military conflict in the spring of 1990 between the Ireland and Iceland, caused by the 1989 Icelandic sovereign default and the demands of Ireland that Iceland fulfill its debt obligations in return for defaulting. The conflict was surprisingly violent and was viewed as an opportunity for Ireland to flex its muscles, including belligerent threats to deploy nuclear weapons against Iceland. The climax of the conflict was the suicide bombing by helicopter of the Irish Dail Eireann by a terminally ill Icelandic hospital patient, killing 43 and wounding 117.