WI: Mobutu buys a couple nukes

after the collapse of the USSR could mobutu buy a couple nuclear weapons as insurance

After all, he had a space program in the Seventies, which predictibily failed.

If he wanted a nuke then he should have been less corrupt since 1965, invest in the training and infrastructure needed to develop a nuke, which could butterfly the First Congo War.

Their role in the far more destructive Second Congo War is much harder to defend.

Along with the today current help to some armed groups in the East.
 
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