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Advena
The South African nuclear weapons production facility, having been transferred in 1979 from the Pelindaba nuclear research center to the state-owned Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor), was later developed as the Kentron Circle facility.
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Apartheid
Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.
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Blackburn Buccaneer
The Blackburn Buccaneer was a British carrier-borne attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy (RN).
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Coventry Four
Four South African alleged arms smugglers were arrested by HM Customs & Excise officers in Coventry in March 1984 and charged with conspiring to export arms from Britain to apartheid South Africa in contravention of the mandatory UN arms embargo.
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David Albright
David Albright, M.Sc., is the founder of the non-governmental Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), its current president, and author of several books on proliferation of atomic weapons.
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Denel Overberg Test Range
The Denel Overberg Test Range is a weapons systems testing facility in the Overberg region on the south coast of South Africa, near Arniston, Western Cape.
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Dieter Gerhardt
Dieter Felix Gerhardt (born 1 November 1935) is a former Commodore in the South African Navy and commander of the strategic Simon's Town naval dockyard.
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F. W. de Klerk
Frederik Willem de Klerk (born 18 March 1936) is a South African politician who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as Deputy President from 1994 to 1996.
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Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid
Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid are studied as the foreign relations of South Africa between 1948 and 1993.
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Gun-type fission weapon
Gun-type fission weapons are fission-based nuclear weapons whose design assembles their fissile material into a supercritical mass by the use of the "gun" method: shooting one piece of sub-critical material into another.
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Helikon vortex separation process
The Helikon vortex separation process is an aerodynamic uranium enrichment process designed around a device called a vortex tube.
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Hendrik Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (8 September 1901 – 6 September 1966), also commonly referred to as H. F. Verwoerd and Dr.
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Historical nuclear weapons stockpiles and nuclear tests by country
This article shows various estimates of the nuclear weapons stockpiles of various countries at various points in time.
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History of nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons possess enormous destructive power from nuclear fission or combined fission and fusion reactions.
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Israel–South Africa relations
Israel–South Africa relations refer to the current and historic relationship between the Republic of South Africa and the State of Israel.
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Jericho (missile)
Jericho is a general designation given to a loosely related family of deployed ballistic missiles developed by Israel from the 1960s forward.
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Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; barnāmeye jāme‘e eqdāme moshtarak, acronym: برجام BARJAM), known commonly as the Iran nuclear deal or Iran deal, is an agreement on the nuclear program of Iran reached in Vienna on 14 July 2015 between Iran, the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States—plus Germany), and the European Union.
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List of nuclear test sites
This article contains a list of nuclear weapon test sites used across the world.
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List of states with nuclear weapons
There are eight sovereign states that have successfully detonated nuclear weapons.
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Military history of Africa
The military history of Africa is one of the oldest military histories in the world.
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Military history of South Africa
The military history of South Africa chronicles a vast time period and complex events from the dawn of history until the present time.
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Nuclear latency
Nuclear latency or a Nuclear threshold state is the condition of a country possessing the technology to quickly build nuclear weapons, without having actually yet done so.
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Nuclear programme of South Africa
As a member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, South Africa uses nuclear science for peaceful means.
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Nuclear warfare
Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on the enemy.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).
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Nuclear weapons and Israel
Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons, with an estimated arsenal of up to 400 warheads; which would make it the world's third biggest arsenal.
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Nuclear-weapon-free zone
A nuclear-weapons-free zone (NWFZ) is defined by the United Nations as an agreement which a group of states has freely established by treaty or convention that bans the use, development, or deployment of nuclear weapons in a given area, that has mechanisms of verification and control to enforce its obligations, and that is recognized as such by the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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P. W. Botha
Pieter Willem Botha, (12 January 1916 – 31 October 2006), commonly known as "P.
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Pelindaba
Pelindaba (Zulu for "end of story" or "the conclusion") is South Africa's main nuclear research center, run by the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation.
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Project Coast
Project Coast was a top-secret chemical and biological weapons (CBW) program instituted by the South African government during the apartheid era.
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Renfrew Christie
Renfrew Leslie Christie (born 1949) is a South African scholar and member of the Anti-Apartheid Movement whose covert operations for uMkhonto we Sizwe, the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress, provided intelligence that made possible the 1982 bombing of the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station.
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Richard T. Kennedy
Richard Thomas Kennedy (24 December 1919 – 12 January 1998) was a United States soldier and diplomat.
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SAFARI-1
SAFARI-1 is a 20 MW light water-cooled, beryllium reflected, pool-type research reactor, initially used for high level nuclear physics research programmes and was commissioned in 1965.
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Shavit
Shavit (Hebrew: "comet" – שביט) is a small lift launch vehicle produced by Israel from 1982 onwards, to launch satellites into orbit.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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South African Airways Flight 295
South African Airways Flight 295 was a commercial flight from Taiwan to South Africa.
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South African Border War
The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990.
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South African Nuclear Energy Corporation
The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) was established as a public company by the Republic of South Africa Nuclear Energy Act in 1999 and is wholly owned by the State.
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TATB
TATB, triaminotrinitrobenzene or 2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5- trinitrobenzene is an aromatic explosive, based on the basic six-carbon benzene ring structure with three nitro functional groups (NO2) and three amine (NH2) groups attached, alternating around the ring.
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The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden is a Swedish novel written by Jonas Jonasson.
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The Warfare of Genghis Khan
"The Warfare of Genghis Khan" is the 101st episode of The West Wing and the 13th of the fifth season.
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Unilateral disarmament
Unilateral disarmament is a policy option, to renounce weapons without seeking equivalent concessions from one's actual or potential rivals.
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 418
United Nations Security Council Resolution 418, adopted unanimously on 4 November 1977, imposed a mandatory arms embargo against South Africa.
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Vastrap
Vastrap (Stand firm) is a small military airfield situated in the Kalahari Desert north east of Upington inside a 700 square kilometre weapons test range of the same name belonging to the South African National Defence Force.
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Vela Incident
The Vela Incident, also known as the South Atlantic Flash, was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near the Prince Edward Islands off Antarctica.
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Vortex (Bond and Larkin novel)
Vortex is a 1991 war novel by Larry Bond and Patrick Larkin.
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Weapon of mass destruction
A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human-made structures (e.g., buildings), natural structures (e.g., mountains), or the biosphere.
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Weapons-grade nuclear material
Weapons-grade nuclear material is any fissionable nuclear material that is pure enough to be used to make a nuclear weapon or has properties that make it particularly suitable for nuclear weapons use.
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1989 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 1989 in South Africa.
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20th-century events
The 20th-century events include many notable events which occurred throughout the 20th century, which began on January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000, according to the Gregorian calendar.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
