
Overview of the Nuclear Disarmament Resource Collection
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Country Spotlight
From the 1940s-1990s, South Africa’s apartheid government engaged in research and development of weapons of mass destruction. In 1989, however, its decision to end the nuclear program made South Africa the only country to achieve a nuclear weapon capability and voluntarily relinquish it. In 1993, it also ended its biological, chemical, and ballistic missile programs.
Region Sub-Saharan Africa
1982 Armscor builds South Africa’s first operational nuclear weapon
6 Total number of nuclear weapons built by South Africa
1993 Official end of all WMD programs
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