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South Africa’s nuclear weapons doctrine was designed for political leverage rather than actual battlefield use, specifically to induce the United States of America to intervene in any regional conflicts between South Africa and the Soviet Union or its proxies.
The story of the South Africa’s nuclear weapon programme is unusual because it has a beginning and an end. It is the only country that has actually produced military nuclear weapons and then given them up—voluntarily. South Africa carried out the programme in secret and dismantled it in secret. But that is not to say it was a very big secret.
15 Αυγ 2018 · Vorster approved the development of South Africa’s nuclear weapons program in 1974. The South African AEC planned to build a uranium gun-type bomb similar to the “Little Boy” bomb dropped on Hiroshima, which would not require plutonium or high explosives.
The apartheid-era South African nuclear weapons programme, which built and then dismantled six and one-half Hiroshima type bombs, is a rarity in international history. However, more than a decade after the programme's exposure, the historical record of this
27 Ιουλ 2023 · On March 24, 1993, in a speech to the South African parliament, President F. W. de Klerk announced publicly that his country had secretly built and dismantled six nuclear weapons. After weighing the options, assuming the risks, and putting in the time and resources to acquire nuclear weapons, South Africa gave them up.
Based on an in-depth analysis of South Africa’s nuclear history, it examines general causes of proliferation, such as technical capabilities and constraints; a country’s motivation to build a nuclear bomb; and particular domestic and international situations.
How did South Africa obtain nuclear weapons? How did the apartheid government dismantle this intensely secret program? In 1989, South Africa made the momentous decision to abandon its nuclear weapons, making it the first and still the only country that has produced nuclear weapons and given them up.
