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Re-examine nuke test
Al J. Venter, 1997. Mail & Guardian, 23 October 1997.
Reports that South Africa's deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad was quoted in Ha'aretz in April 1997 as saying "there was definitely a nuclear test" in 1979 and that the bomb was South African, and that he later said he had not made the statement.
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The source for Pahad's statement and his disavowal of it.
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Venter, A. J. (1997). Re-examine nuke test. Mail & Guardian, 23 October 1997. https://mg.co.za/article/1997-10-23-re-examine-nuke-test
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