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From the 1960s to the 1990s, South Africa pursued research into weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, [2] biological, and chemical weapons under the apartheid government. 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 ...
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
nuclear designs of South Africa’s gun-assembled and implosion weapons. The completed devices were all simple gun-type devices, designed to be interchangeable between an aircraft-carried glide bomb gravity bomb and a missile re-entry warhead. South Africa expected a yield of 14–19 kilotons. However, their
25 Φεβ 2019 · A quick history of South Africa’s Nuclear weapons. South Africa’s ratification of the TPNW is unique, because of its own history with nuclear weapons. As early as 1948, uranium-rich South Africa was interested in atomic energy, and the mining, trade and energy industry that could be built around it.
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.
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.
