South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program

CNS Resources on South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program

Online Resources

Updated April 28, 2003


Nuclear History

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)
http://www.isis-online.org/publications/southafrica/index.html
This site includes:

  • David Albright, "South Africa's Secret Nuclear Weapons," ISIS Report, May 1994.
  • David Albright and Corey Gay, "A Flash from the Past," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nov./Dec. 1997.
  • David Albright, "South Africa and the Affordable Bomb," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 1994.
  • David Albright & Mark Hibbs, "South Africa: The ANC and the Atom Bomb," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 1993.
  • David Albright & Tom Zamora, "South Africa Flirts with the NPT," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jan./Feb. 1991.

Adolf von Baekmann, Gary Dillon, and Demetrius Perricos, "Nuclear Verification in South Africa," IAEA Bulletin, 37 (January 1995): 42-48.
http://www.iaea.or.at/worldatom/inforesource/bulletin/bull371/baeckmann.html

Frank V. Pabian, "South Africa's Nuclear Weapon Program: Lessons for U.S. Nonproliferation Policy," Nonproliferation Review, 3 (Fall 1995), pp. 1-19.
http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/pdfs/pabian31.pdf (PDF Format)


South African Nuclear and Nonproliferation Legislation

Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, 1993
http://cns.miis.edu/research/safrica/act.pdf

Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Amendment Act, 1995
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/1995/act95-050.html

Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Amendment Act, 1996
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/legislation/1996/act96-059.html


South African Agencies, Firms, and Organizations

African National Congress (ANC)
http://www.anc.org.za/

Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor)
http://www.armscor.co.za/

Denel
http://www.denel.co.za/

Eskom
http://www.eskom.co.za/

Government of National Unity
http://www.polity.org.za/

Ministry of Defense
http://www.mil.za/

South African Government internet sites
http://www.polity.org.za/lists/govsites.html


South African Reports, Statements and Policy Documents

Draft White Paper on national defence for the Republic of South Africa (21 June 1995)
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/white_papers/defence.html

Department of Foreign Affairs statement on ratification of the Treaty of Pelindaba (3 April 1998)
http://www.unog.ch/frames/disarm/curdoc/1503.htm

South African Energy Policy Discussion Document (July 1995)
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/green_papers/energy1.html

South African Foreign Policy Discussion Document (July 1996)
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/discuss/foreign.html


News from South Africa

Financial Mail
http://www.fm.co.za/

Independent
http://www.inc.co.za/

News Resource (Links to South African news in English)
http://newo.com/news/news_location.htl?lctn_search=14600


US Government Sites and Documents on South Africa

US Department of State Background Notes
http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/southafrica_0298_bgn.html


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


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