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In reply to the discussion: It's Official: The Pentagon Finally Admitted That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons, Too [View all]hunter
(38,312 posts)8. White South Africa was terrified of Soviet supported black communist opposition...
...but they were even more terrified of a democratically elected majority black government having nukes.
U.S. government was equally terrified, for exactly the same reasons, which is why they looked the other way while the apartheid whites were in control and building bombs, and were supportive when South Africa dismantled their bombs.
Many anti-Soviet interests, national and private, including white apartheid South Africa, contributed to Israel's nuclear weapons program, and helped keep it secret too, not from the Soviet Union and it's on-again-off-again Middle Eastern partners, but from the public at large, especially the growing Israeli, Western European, and U.S. antinuclear movements.
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It's Official: The Pentagon Finally Admitted That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons, Too [View all]
KamaAina
Mar 2015
OP
White South Africa was terrified of Soviet supported black communist opposition...
hunter
Mar 2015
#8
I seem to recall that Israel and SA were working together on the whole nuke thing for a bit...
MADem
Mar 2015
#12
Everyone knew and acted accordingly, like Pakistan as unofficial members of the nuke club
freshwest
Mar 2015
#18
I'm sure we'll demand inspections and slap sanctions on Israel if it refuses.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2015
#5
On a much smaller scale, the Protestants and Catholics had the same sort of conflict in N. Ireland
hunter
Mar 2015
#29
If either Iran or Iraq had possessed a suitcase nuke during the I/I War, I've no doubt
MADem
Mar 2015
#31
Just a few million dead bodies and a radioactive landscape, I suppose. Just sayin'
freshwest
Mar 2015
#19
Still gonna be a lot of caterwauling over the fence, though. Let's just keep it there. n/t
freshwest
Mar 2015
#23
No nation can be trusted with Nukes. Not a single one. Sooner or later someone who has them will
sabrina 1
Mar 2015
#30
Veils and Pretend Positions are dropping all over..be careful what you wish for.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#11