Would they take MiGS or Mirages ?However if they did, they wouldn't do it for something so pedestrian and commonplace as oil, which Sth Africa can get elsewhere on the open market. It would have to be for something as hard to come by and massively important as a nuclear weapon. Perhaps a squadron of these:
Could they keep it a secret or is it likely to be leaked?Well, there’s a way to get U.N. Security Council approved unanimous sanctions on the RSA with Reagan and Thatcher doing an insta-180.
Could they keep it a secret or is it likely to be leaked?
the U.S. will know where it came from in a matter of hours.
Yes! Exactly!
US tech would quite easily track it.
Yeah. Depending on where the ore was mined and which reactor/centrifuge it was refined in, it will produce different trace elements after fission/fusion, forming a unique fingerprint. That’s every bit as good as a DNA match for determining who it belongs to.
Interesting.
Would not South Africa the lose the remaining relations it had with the West and Africa?Could South Africa supply either Iraq or Iran during the 1980s. The know-how to build a nuclear weapon in exchange for oil
Would not South Africa the lose the remaining relations it had with the West and Africa?
That would massively piss off both the United States and the Soviet Union. Extremely well funded black rebellions would appear overnight.
That would massively piss off both the United States and the Soviet Union. Extremely well funded black rebellions would appear overnight.