South Africa's nuclear weapons experience - an opportunity for leadership in advancing the global arms control agenda?
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Armament and Disarmament
Author: Hannes Steyn
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0595356656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Africa was the first nation in the world to renounce and destroy its top-secret nuclear weapons capability. Its government also eliminated the ability to produce and deliver these warheads. Because no one archived the official documentary evidence of the program, various writers and scholars, as well as the public at large, have been left to speculate-and forget-the activities that consumed billions of rands and years of dedication. Based on facts and first-hand perspectives, Armament and Disarmament offers intimate views from three participants in the nuclear weapons program. A larger picture emerges through their recollections, fulfilling the role of essential perspectives and documentation where official records no longer exist. Out of secrecy and a need-to-know philosophy, many involved in the program, both wittingly and unwittingly, were never briefed as to how their particular endeavors fit into the bigger scheme. Armament and Disarmament sheds light on the complexity of events surrounding the South African nuclear weapons program and brings tribute to the ingenuity and dedication of all those involved.
Out of (South) Africa Pretoria's nuclear weapons experience
Author: Roy E. Horton
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 142899484X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe primary focus of this paper is the impact of key South African leaders on the successful developments and subsequent rollbacks of South Africa's nuclear weapons capability. It highlights the key milestones in the development of South Africa's nuclear weapon capability. It also relates how different groups within South Africa (scientists, politicians, military and technocrats) interacted to successfully produce South Africa's nuclear deterrent. It emphasizes the pivotal influence of the senior political leadership to pursue nuclear rollback given the disadvantages of its nuclear means to achieve vital national interests. The conclusions drawn from flu's effort are the South African nuclear program was an extreme response to its own identity Crisis. Nuclear weapons became a means to achieving a long term end of a closer affiliation with the West. A South Africa yearning to be identified as a Western nation and receive guarantees of its security rationalized the need for a nuclear deterrent. The deterrent was intended to draw in Western support to counter a feared total onslaught by Communist forces in the region. Two decades later, that same South Africa relinquished its nuclear deterrent and reformed its domestic policies to secure improved economic and political integration with the West.
Nuclear Armament and Disarmament
Author: Hannes Steyn
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780595436033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Africa was the first nation in the world to renounce and destroy its top-secret nuclear weapons capability. Its government also eliminated the ability to produce and deliver these warheads. Because no one archived the official documentary evidence of the program, various writers and scholars, as well as the public at large, have been left to speculate-and forget-the activities that consumed billions of rands and years of dedication. Based on facts and first-hand perspectives, Nuclear Armament and Disarmament offers intimate views from three participants in the nuclear weapons program. A larger picture emerges through their recollections, fulfilling the role of essential perspectives and documentation where official records no longer exist. Out of secrecy and a need-to-know philosophy, many involved in the program, both wittingly and unwittingly, were never briefed as to how their particular endeavors fit into the bigger scheme. Nuclear Armament and Disarmament sheds light on the complexity of events surrounding the South African nuclear weapons program and brings tribute to the ingenuity and dedication of all those involved.
South Africa and Nuclear Proliferation
Author: J.D.L. Moore
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1987-06-18
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 134907828X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImpact Upon U.S. Security of a South African Nuclear Weapons Capability
Author: Kenneth L. Adelman
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContents: Research Problem and Assumptions; South Africa's Nuclear Capability; Utility for South African Nuclear Weapons; The Effect of South African Proliferation on Western Economic Interests; The Effect of South African Proliferation on Western Interests in Access to Strategic Materials; The Effect of South African Proliferation on Western Political Interests; The Effect of South African Proliferation on Western Military Interests; South African Proliferation and Western Security Interests in General. (fr).
Towards a World Free from Nuclear Weapons
Author: Karamchund Mackerdhuj
Publisher: UN
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 30
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Africa is the first country to dismantle its nuclear weapons capability voluntarily. All nuclear devices were destroyed in 1989 and in 1993 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that there were no nuclear weapons components that have not been "rendered useless or converted to commercial non-nuclear applications or peaceful nuclear usage". South Africa's decision was a challenge to the world to take firm steps towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons, and a demonstration of the benefits that disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control hold for international peace and security.
How South Africa Built Six Atom Bombs and Then Abandoned Its Nuclear Weapons Program
Author: Al J. Venter
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOut of (South) Africa
Author: Roy E. Horton
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe primary focus of this paper is the impact of key South African leaders on the successful developments and subsequent rollbacks of South Africa's nuclear weapons capability. It highlights the key milestones in the development of South Africa's nuclear weapon capability. It also relates how different groups within South Africa (scientists, politicians, military and technocrats) interacted to successfully produce South Africa's nuclear deterrent. It emphasizes the pivotal influence of the senior political leadership to pursue nuclear rollback given the disadvantages of its nuclear means to achieve vital national interests. The conclusions drawn from flu's effort are the South African nuclear program was an extreme response to its own identity Crisis. Nuclear weapons became a means to achieving a long term end of a closer affiliation with the West. A South Africa yearning to be identified as a Western nation and receive guarantees of its security rationalized the need for a nuclear deterrent. The deterrent was intended to draw in Western support to counter a feared total onslaught by Communist forces in the region. Two decades later, that same South Africa relinquished its nuclear deterrent and reformed its domestic policies to secure improved economic and political integration with the West.
Revisiting South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program
Author: David Albright
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-09-24
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781536845655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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. Over thirty years, the apartheid regime had created a remarkably sophisticated capability to build nuclear weapons-both the nuclear warhead and advanced military systems to deliver them. The program was born in secret and remained so until its end. The government initially sought to dismantle it in secret. It hoped to avoid any negative international consequences of possessing nuclear weapons. The apartheid government's strategy did not work, because too many intelligence agencies knew about South Africa's nuclear weapons. Faced with intense pressure, South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk reversed course and adopted a policy of transparency in 1993. However, he decided to hide many of its aspects. Nonetheless, most of the remaining secrets emerged over the ensuing 25 years. Revisiting South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program draws on previously secret information to provide the first comprehensive, technically-oriented look at South Africa's nuclear weapons program; how it grew, evolved, and ended. It also finds lessons for today's nuclear proliferation cases.
