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Better know a non-nuke: South Africa

Better know a non-nuke: South Africa

Update: 2025-11-20
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In this episode of The Arms Control Primer, host Dr Alexander Bollfrass is joined by Prof Anna-Mart van Wyk and Dr Robin E. Möser to explore how apartheid-era South Africa built a nuclear arsenal and how, after the end of apartheid, it became the first state to dismantle its weapons entirely.  


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Better know a non-nuke: South Africa

Better know a non-nuke: South Africa