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Author : J.D.L. Moore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349078288
Author : Hannes Steyn,Richardt Van der Walt,Jan Van Loggerenberg
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nuclear disarmament
ISBN : 9780595356652
South 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.
Author : Roy E. Horton
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428994843
The 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.
Author : Lucky E. Asuelime,Raquel A. Adekoye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319333731
This book investigates drivers and trends in nuclear proliferation in the Global South. 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. It also highlights Britain’s role in the development of technological capability in South Africa and explains how nuclear weapons influence international relations. Finally, the study offers effective solutions to the problem of nuclear proliferation in developing countries.
Author : David Albright,Andrea Stricker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-24
Category : National security
ISBN : 1536845655
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. 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.
Author : Kenneth L. Adelman,Albion W. Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : National security
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081412020
Contents: 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).
Author : Helen E. Purkitt,Stephen F. Burgess
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253217301
A comprehensive history of the development and dismantling of South Africa's weapons of mass destruction program.
Author : J. D. L. Moore,University of Manchester. Department of Liberal Studies in Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:642942557
Author : Vipin Narang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691172620
The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weapons Much of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has received little attention. Seeking the Bomb is the first book to analyze this topic by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are available to aspirants, why aspirants select one strategy over another, and how this matters to international politics. Looking at a wide range of nations, from India and Japan to the Soviet Union and North Korea to Iraq and Iran, Vipin Narang develops an original typology of proliferation strategies—hedging, sprinting, sheltered pursuit, and hiding. Each strategy of proliferation provides different opportunities for the development of nuclear weapons, while at the same time presenting distinct vulnerabilities that can be exploited to prevent states from doing so. Narang delves into the crucial implications these strategies have for nuclear proliferation and international security. Hiders, for example, are especially disruptive since either they successfully attain nuclear weapons, irrevocably altering the global power structure, or they are discovered, potentially triggering serious crises or war, as external powers try to halt or reverse a previously clandestine nuclear weapons program. As the international community confronts the next generation of potential nuclear proliferators, Seeking the Bomb explores how global conflict and stability are shaped by the ruthlessly pragmatic ways states choose strategies of proliferation.
Author : Nic Von Wielligh,Lydia Von Wielligh-Steyn
Publisher : Litera Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Nuclear disarmament
ISBN : 1920188487
South Africa's Bomb kept the world guessing for years. Six-and-a- half nuclear bombs had been secretly built and destroyed, former South African President F.W. de Klerk announced in 1993. No other country has ever voluntarily destroyed its nuclear arsenal. From 1975 Nic von Wielligh was involved in the production of nuclear weapons material, the dismantling of the nuclear weapons and the provision of evidence of South Africa's bona fides to the international community. The International Atomic Energy Agency declared South Africa's Initial Report to be the most comprehensive and professional that they had ever received. In this book the nuclear physicist and his daughter Lydia von Wielligh-Steyn tell the gripping story of the splitting of the atom and the power it releases. It is an account of ground-breaking research and the scientists responsible; it deals with uranium enrichment, the arms race and South Africa's secret programme. The Bomb: South Africa's nuclear programme is a story of nuclear explosions, espionage, smuggling of nuclear materials and swords that became ploughshares.
Author : United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210585170
This report, submitted to the General Assembly for consideration at its thirty-fifth session, was prepared by the Group of Experts on South Africa's Plan and Capability in the Nuclear Field, which was appointed by the Secretary-General to assist in the preparation of a comprehensive report on that matter, in accordance with Assembly resolution 34/76 B of 11 December 1979. The subject matter falls within the context of denuclearization of Africa, which has been the subject of continuous and active concern in the United Nations since 1961.
Author : Zdenek Červenka,Barbara Rogers
Publisher : Crown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037320244
The purpose of this well researched book is to expose the secret West German collaboration with South Africa in the field of nuclear and military technology. There is also a detailed chapter (p. 108-156) on "The Rössing connection," documenting the uranium rush in Namibia, the West German involvement in the Rössing mine, and the South African uranium marketing strategy. (Eriksen/Moorsom 1989).
Author : Al J. Venter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015082646772
Author : Frank Barnaby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Nuclear disarmament
ISBN : UCAL:B5200798
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UOM:39015077928417