24-05-2010, 03:00 PM
Ha ha Magda! I was thinking three sizes: 10 kiloton yield standard uranium, higher-yield standard plutonium and thermonuclear fusion hydrogen bomb. Of course he didn't mean conventional bombs as 2 out of 3 flavours.
Good stuff, Paul, thanks for posting it. I can't help remembering the merlin html document at cryptome which seems to hint at Iran being set up as nuclear contender. Also, UAE has some light water reactor project going with the USA.
One question on just how secret Secment was. I was jsut browsing through the latest issue of Jewish Currents out of NYC and there's a South African Jewish memoir in there that mentions Union SA and Israeli troops in active collaboration and it doesn't sound like it was a secret at the time. Is Secment strictly Chalet-type nuclear deals then?
Also, when the ANC coalition took power they signed onto NNPT as a NON-nuclear power with the provisio two or three neighboring states (Zambia and Zaire iirc, maybe another) did the same. It sounds like SA had the goods and shelved them for whatever reason (prior to democratic black majority rule, probably the explanation in itself) and the post-apartheid politicians went along with it out of some distaste for nuclear power-politics, basically becoming the first nuclear power to renounce nuclear weapons. Or were they sold a bill of goods and acted in good faith, i.e. perhaps they were tricked into signing on as a non-power in order to set some precedent?
Thanks again.
Good stuff, Paul, thanks for posting it. I can't help remembering the merlin html document at cryptome which seems to hint at Iran being set up as nuclear contender. Also, UAE has some light water reactor project going with the USA.
One question on just how secret Secment was. I was jsut browsing through the latest issue of Jewish Currents out of NYC and there's a South African Jewish memoir in there that mentions Union SA and Israeli troops in active collaboration and it doesn't sound like it was a secret at the time. Is Secment strictly Chalet-type nuclear deals then?
Also, when the ANC coalition took power they signed onto NNPT as a NON-nuclear power with the provisio two or three neighboring states (Zambia and Zaire iirc, maybe another) did the same. It sounds like SA had the goods and shelved them for whatever reason (prior to democratic black majority rule, probably the explanation in itself) and the post-apartheid politicians went along with it out of some distaste for nuclear power-politics, basically becoming the first nuclear power to renounce nuclear weapons. Or were they sold a bill of goods and acted in good faith, i.e. perhaps they were tricked into signing on as a non-power in order to set some precedent?
Thanks again.