WI/PC idea:Brazil and Argentina continue Nuclear weapons programs?

Both Argentina and Brazil have a history of having a nuclear weapons program. However, both nations suspended them shortly after each other and signed a treaty to not build any such weapons.

Is it plausible that the programs could have continued, and we could see a nuclear armed Brazil and Argentina? And what sort of effects would this have on things?
 
Both Argentina and Brazil have a history of having a nuclear weapons program. However, both nations suspended them shortly after each other and signed a treaty to not build any such weapons.

Is it plausible that the programs could have continued, and we could see a nuclear armed Brazil and Argentina? And what sort of effects would this have on things?

If there had been no war between Britain and Argentina in 1982, and the Argentinian dictatorship hadn't fallen, the program might have continued. By 1983 (IOTL it was in 1984 under a democratic presidence), Argentina would have had the capacity to enrich uranium. I'm not sure when we'd have gotten a bomb.

However, the members of the junta who rulled Argentina were not only terribly cruel, but also extremely incompetent: they went to war because they wanted to unite the country, as the economy was in chaos, and demostrations against the government were numerous. They might have fallen anyways even if there had been no war.
 
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