Francoist Spain gets nukes.

What if Francoist Spain had successfully developed nukes? What would other countries do? I believe, that, even the USA may not have been okay with this because accepting a far-right dictatorship for being anti-communist is one thing but letting it get nukes may well be too far. What do you think?
Britain might not like Spanish nukes because of Gibraltar.
 
Salazar with nukes would be terrifying and weird. Especially how fanatically he wanted to keep the colonies. Portugal and India Had a war in the 1960es for Goa.

While an estado novo as we know it with nukes would be implausible, i feel like if Portugal has invested more in education in the 40s/50s and also if the dictatorship had stayed in place until the end of the Cold War (which would require other pods since irl people were massively (2% a year , 3% if you count the colonies, that’s no to far from the 4-5% of civil war Syria) leaving Portugal, if you can have a somewhat better quality of life and more people sent to the colonies, along with a more educated population maybe a Portugal with nukes could be plausible by the 80s, by this point I doubt t would be any different from South Africa.

If Portugal has been given nukes by an ASB in 1960, then that would be awkward , Would India dare invading goa if nukes defend it? The reaction of China would be interesting too since irl Macau was mostly a Chinese controlled useless port under nominal Portuguese ownership at the time, if suddenly an imperialist power who don’t want to let go colonies put nuclear weapon a few dozen km away from Guangzhou, that would be a massive security threat. The East Timor/Indonesian Timor border in the early to mid 60s when sokarno was staunchly anti imperialistic and antagonising the Netherlands and Malaysia would also be interesting
 
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What if an assimilado is given charge of a crash program to expand the military? As a reward, for his efforts. Buy off an african elite.
 
To add to this post of mine, it should be noted that there is a theory that the CIA helped killing Park Chung-hee because he wanted South Korea to have nukes. There is also a theory that the CIA helped killing Luis Carrero Blanco partially because he wanted Spain to have nukes.
Of course, both are dubious conspiracy theories but I found them worth of mention because if they are true, then, there is no doubt that the USA and the CIA would have done everything to stop or destroy Francoist Spain's nuclear program.
Regardless, IMO, Francoist Spain getting nukes is something that the USA wouldn't allow, even in the Cold War, because they already have allies with nuclear weapons, France and the UK, that are far better and saner allies that aren't far-right dictatorships. It would also annoy the Western European countries because they hated Franco and his far-right dictatorship. Many Americans wouldn't like this, either. It could also become Soviet propaganda. On addition, even USA relations with Francoist Spain were far from perfect and would definitely become worse if it did this.

Maybe it wasn't necessary to say all this, I agree with what's said in https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...ero-francos-nuclear-bomb.304540/#post-8652941, while the USA may have tolerated dictators for realpolitics, the idea of such dictators getting nukes has always terrified the USA.
 
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