South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program

CNS Resources on South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program

Bibliography on South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program


Albright, David, Frans Berkhout, and William Walker. 1997. Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996: World Inventories, Capabilities and Policies. Oxford University Press. Pp. 377-92.

Albright, David. 1993. "A Curious Conversion." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 49(5): 8-11.

Albright, David. 1994. "South Africa and the Affordable Bomb." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (July/August 1996): pp. 37-47.

Albright, David. 1994. "South Africa’s Secret Nuclear Weapons." ISIS Report 1(4). Washington, DC. Institute for Science and International Security.

Albright, David, and Mark Hibbs. 1993. "South Africa: The ANC and the Atom Bomb." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 49(3): 32-37.

Baeckmann, Adolf von, Gary Dillon, and Demetrius Perricos. 1995. "Nuclear Verification in South Africa." IAEA Bulletin 37(1): 42-48.

Betts, Richard K. 1979. "A Diplomatic Bomb for South Africa?" International Security 4(2): 91-115.

Fischer, David. 1994. "South Africa." In Nuclear Proliferation after the Cold War. Mitchell Reiss and Robert S. Litwak, eds. Washington, DC. Woodrow Wilson Center Press.

Fischer, David. 1990. "South Africa: As a Nuclear Supplier." In International Nuclear Trade and Nonproliferation: The Challenges of the Emerging Suppliers. W.C. Potter, ed. Toronto. Lexington Books.

Flank, Steven. 1993. "Exploding the Black Box: The Historical Sociology of Nuclear Proliferation." Security Studies 3(2): 259-94. See especially pp. 273-77.

Hibbs, Mark. 1993. "South Africa's Secret Nuclear Program: From a PNE to Deterrent." Nuclear Fuel 18(10): 3-6.

Hibbs, Mark. 1993. "South Africa’s Secret Nuclear Program: The Dismantling." Nuclear Fuel 18(11): 9-13.

Howlett, Darryl, and John Simpson. 1993. "Nuclearisation and Denuclearisation in South Africa." Survival 35(3): 154-173.

Masiza, Zondi. 1993. "A Chronology of South Africa’s Nuclear Program." Nonproliferation Review 1(1): 34-53.

Muller, Marie. 1996. "South Africa Crisscrosses the Nuclear Threshold." In William Gutteridge, ed. South Africa's Defence and Secuity into the 21st Century. Dartmouth. Aldershot.

Pabian, Frank V. 1995. "South Africa's Nuclear Weapon Program: Lessons for U.S. Nonproliferation Policy." Nonproliferation Review 3(1): 1-19.

Reiss, Mitchell. 1995. "South Africa: 'Castles in the Air." In Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities. Washington, DC. Woodrow Wilson Center Press.

Sagan, Scott D. 1996/97. "Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?" International Security, 21(3): 54-86. See especially pp. 69-71.

Spector, Leonard S., and Jacqueline R. Smith. 1990. "South Africa." In Nuclear Ambitions: The Spread of Nuclear Weapons 1989-1990. San Francisco. Westview Press.

Stumpf, Waldo. 1995/96. "South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program: From Deterrence to Dismantlement." Arms Control Today 25(10): 3-8.

Villiers, J.W. de, Roger Jardine, and Mitchell Reiss. 1993. "Why South Africa Gave Up the Bomb." Foreign Affairs 72(5): 98-109.


Michael Barletta, March 1999.
© Center for Nonproliferation Studies,
Monterey Institute of International Studies.


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