The nuclear chain of command: South Africa and the Bomb
By Khadija Sharife | April 2009
The crash of the Berlin Wall — stripping the apartheid government of the primary pretext sustaining apartheid — and implicit US support, would see Prime Minister de Klerk dismantling the regime’s nuclear programme, employing Dr Wynand Mouton, then-rector of the University of the Free State and retired nuclear physicist, to destroy the body of evidence related to the nuclear programme. No amnesty was required for the estimated 1000 specialists involved in the industry.
Keywords: apartheid | nuclear power | nuclear weapons | South Africa | Southern Africa
