From: "John Beamish" 

I expect that with sufficient time and effort, the hard data could be found.

From a personal perspective:  I lived there for four years (pre-bomb) and
have absolutely no doubt that there was a successful program to build
a-weapons.  You are probably right to call RSA involvement questionable ...
but the part that is questionable is much smaller than your message
suggests.

"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
news:36h590hajnr8chi5uhoo4biq3gbb39hk9f{at}4ax.com...
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:29:05 +0100, Adam Flinton

> wrote:
>
> >> The latter seemed most probable. S. Africa didn't really need a bomb as
it was
> >> under no threat from its neighbors.  Israel was and allying itself with
a
> >> right-wing government was typical of Israel. Doing the test off the S.
African
> >> coast gave it some plausible deniability.
> >>
> >
> >It wasn't questionable. The only question was wether the warheads were
> >designed to fit the same rockets (i.e. Jericho).
> >
> >Adam
>
> The precise level of S. African involvement was and remains questionable.
> Neither S. Africa nor Israel has revealed all the relevant information.
>
> You can believe whatever you want, but the hard evidence simply isn't
there.
>

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