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[quote=Anonymous]In 2010, an American academic provided the first official proof that Israel has nuclear weapons. In 1975, Israel wanted to give the apartheid state of South Africa nuclear weapons that South Africa could potentially use on its neighbors. South Africa later developed nuclear weapons on its own, with help [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93South_Africa_Agreement]from the Israelis[/url]. Both countries were under arms embargoes at the time, South Africa because of apartheid, and [url=https://www.sixdaywar.org/players/france/]Israel because of[/url] its actions during and after the 1967 conflict with its neighbors.

South Africa agreed to dismantle its bombs in 1991 under the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Non-Proliferation_of_Nuclear_Weapons#South_Africa]NNPT[/url].

The Guardian (2010): [u][url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons]Revealed: how Israel[/url] offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons[/u]

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons.

The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that "the very existence of this agreement" was to remain secret.

The Israeli authorities tried to stop South Africa's post-apartheid government declassifying the documents at [American academic Sasha] Polakow-Suransky's request and the revelations will be an embarrassment, particularly as this week's nuclear non-proliferation talks in New York focus on the Middle East.

South African documents show that the apartheid-era military wanted the missiles as a deterrent and for potential strikes against neighbouring states.

Israel pressured the present South African government not to declassify documents obtained by Polakow-Suransky. "The Israeli defence ministry tried to block my access to the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93South_Africa_relations]Secment[/url] agreement on the grounds it was sensitive material, especially the signature and the date," he said. "The South Africans didn't seem to care; they blacked out a few lines and handed it over to me. The ANC government is not so worried about protecting the dirty laundry of the apartheid regime's old allies."[/quote]

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