A Great Power in Africa

One of two nations to do so, actually: you're forgetting Canada...

Perhaps so - I know that US nuclear weapons were stationed there during the Cold War for air-defence purposes, and I suppose it's possible that the Canadians had sole launch authority for them. But I wasn't aware that Canada had produced and deployed it's own nuclear arsenal, or that it had been voluntarily retired. If that is the case, it's certainly a very well-kept secret.
 
Canada? I was under the impression that with Canada it was only nuclear warheads for the missiles based in the country that were US owned but loaned to them, so that they didn't have full control. As far as I'm aware Canada never domestically produced and maintained their own nuclear weapons did they?

No, as far as I know they had a nuclear sharing agreement with the US just like some European members in NATO do today. And besides South Africa voluntarily giving up nuclear weapons you also have to note Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan giving up their nuclear weapons to Russia after the USSR collapsed....

BUT going back to the thread...and since we're leaning to talking about nukes all of the sudden...what countries had the potential to make nukes without any need of importing uranium? Is their any country or countries in Africa possessing enough uranium to make these weapons of mass destruction? South Africa seemed to have it and nuclear weapons would make any country that much more relevant on the world stage and could also boost it to great power status.
 
The Congo would seem likely, wasn't most of the uranium for the Manhattan Project sourced from Congolese mines? Niger also has substantial uranium deposits but obviously doesn't have the infrastructure to produce weapons.
 

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Any chance of Kenya?
Kenya, no, East Africa, perhaps if the British decide to merge Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda. The problems here is that it would be illegal to unite a Colony and a Protectorate and even more illegal to unite anything with a League Mandate. Also, the British were weary about giving the Kenyan settlers more people to dominate.
 
I think as someone said before, it's some kind of Arab Union.

I believe both Nasser and Gaddafi attempted this at various points.

It could have grown to include OTL Egypt, Chad, Sudan (North and South), Libya, Syria, Algeria and Tunisia, and perhaps more.

The capital would likely either be Cairo or Tripoli depending on how things went down, so it would be an African nation for all intents and purposes even if it down own territory in Asia.

With well over 200,000,000 people and more oil than they'd know what to do with, well, you gave your great power.
 
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