South Africa rebuffs repeated U.S. demands that it relinquish its nuclear explosives

Center for Public Integrity/Yahoo ^

[Paid_Russian_Troll]

PELINDABA, South Africa – Enough nuclear explosive to fuel a half-a-dozen bombs, each powerful enough to obliterate central Washington or most of lower Manhattan, is locked in a former silver vault at this nuclear research center near the South African capital.

Technicians extracted the highly-enriched uranium from the apartheid regime’s nuclear weapons in 1990, then melted the fuel down and cast it into ingots. Over the years some of the cache has been used to make medical isotopes, but roughly 485 pounds remains, and South Africa is keeping a tight grip on it.

[faithhopecharity]

i am no fan of the south african government today, but it doesn’t seem like it is going out of its way threatening innocent neighbors or America with nuclear anniliation
...like Obama’s friends in Iran keep doing

Obama claims he is against USA pushing its weight around,
and he claims to be against colonialism in all its forms...

but he acts the tyrant at home and abroad, and bombs other countries and exports all kinds of IslamoNazi mass murder around the world

this puppy don’t hunt

[pepsionice]

They have something of value...to sell Saudi Arabia. And they know the full value.

Ask yourself....with no enemy within a thousand miles...why would they even start such a program from thirty years ago unless it was a contracted deal with Saudi Arabia to start with.

[DemforBush]

“On a cold night in November of 2007, two teams of raiders breached the fences here at the Pelindaba research center, set in the rolling scrubland a half-hour’s drive west of Pretoria, the country’s administrative capital. One group penetrated deep into the site unchallenged and broke into the site’s central alarm station. They were stopped only because a substitute watch officer summoned others.”

That’s more than a little disconcerting.

[faithhopecharity]

could easily be for sale, to the saudi regime (which has openly stated it plans to aquire nukes to defend itself from Iran) ... or maybe for sale to others somewhere else?

or both.

maybe venezuela? just a wild card i have no inside info

[Salman]

Let's see.

South Africa better give up their nuclear explosives (not actual bombs you understand), but Iran can have them.

Right?

[Hulka]

30-yrs ago was when they terminated their nuclear weapons program.

[Paid_Russian_Troll]

In fact considering current South African regime it is not easy to choose who of them would be better with nukes.

[DaveA37]

“...... two teams of raiders “..........

Who do you think these intruders belonged to?

[American Constitutionalist]

Let’s see now, the Ukraine was forced to give up their nukes, and now South Africa is being forced to give up their nukes, but yet Iran is being given a pathway to nukes ?

Would it be a far stretch to imagine that not only does Iran have the nukes, but a deal has already been reached and signed and are waiting to see how the elections go in Israel ?
Iran and the US is waiting to see if Israel is in preparations to attack Iran’s program.
Watch right after Israel’s election that there is a big news announcement that a deal has already been reached and signed and a speech given at the UN.