Are the people who authorised and developed South
Africa's nuclear weapons still living in that part of the world?

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neuro_imager
South Africa didn't 'denuclearise' in the sense of giving up arms.

They had a change to a completely incompetent government who wouldn't know how
to spell 'nuclear' let alone fathom the scientific research and economic and
political strategy required to run such a program.

And given that nuclear scientists and competent political strategists tend to
be smart, they don't hang around in swamps very long.

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bitL
So Kim's nuclear test site collapsed, likely destroying years of work,
necessary equipment and possibly hit trained human personnel, so he suddenly
went on a "tour for peace". Can't say I am unhappy.

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nsnick
That's not how underground nuclear testing works. The bombs are not developed
or stored inside the mountain where they test. There would havecountry. Capitalism with socialist characteristics-
style.

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golergka
Trump's madman tactic turned out to be much more effective than everyone gave
him credit for. Who would have thought.

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louhike
Maybe it's giving it too much credit to say it happened because of him or that
it was what he planned.

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frockington
South Korea thanked him and said he had a big role. It's definitely not 100%
on him but he had a large role

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lightbyte
The only thing that drives him is praise, seems like an easy way to suck up to
him regardless of what he actually did

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gaius
I expect this will be a chapter in The Art Of The Deal vol II

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fnord123
I'm very naive of NK/SK politics but I do wonder how much of this was
influenced by installation of John Bolton who is absolutely frothing at the
mouth for a war with