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Fraering Philip G (pgf9240@ucs.usl.edu) wrote:
: In spite of a lot of official denial by U.S. officials that it couldn't
: be, South Africa had the bomb. Details are fishy about where they tested
: it, although you can rest assured that the NSF panel that studied those
: suspicious Vela burst detections in the South Indian Ocean wasn't biased.
: (wink, wink...).

They apparently didn't test it.  The physics are so basic that you don't 
necessarily need to detonate one to be confident that it will detonate.  
The South Africans have released enough information about their bomb 
program voluntarily to make it hard to believe that they would be 
concealing this minor detail (really, the big issue is whether they had 
it or not, what's to be gained by denying a test?).

No one is sure about the Vela burst, but there has been a lot of 
speculation about it being extraterrestrial in origin.  Personally, I 
think it was the Vogons.

: Heck, people were suprised to find out that SWEDEN had produced nuclear
: bomb "kits" that would have been rapidly assembled into working devices
: in the event of invasion. I wouldn't be suprised if S. Korea or Taiwan

I believe this is incorrect.  Sweden kept alive its ability to produce 
nuclear material, but I don't believe they ever got so far as to actually 
produce hardware.


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