Disarming Apartheid Book contents
- Disarming Apartheid
- Reviews
- Disarming Apartheid
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Development of Pretoria’s Nuclear Industry and Relations with the IAEA, 1950–1977
- 2 Towards Nuclear Weapons – Away from Safeguards
- 3 Nuclear Diplomacy
- 4 Towards the End of South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons and NPT Negotiations, 1988–1989
- 5 South African Movement towards NPT Signature, 1990–1991
- 6 Post-NPT Accession
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Nuclear Diplomacy
NPT Defiance Vs Non-proliferation Efforts, 1981–1988
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2024
- Disarming Apartheid
- Reviews
- Disarming Apartheid
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Development of Pretoria’s Nuclear Industry and Relations with the IAEA, 1950–1977
- 2 Towards Nuclear Weapons – Away from Safeguards
- 3 Nuclear Diplomacy
- 4 Towards the End of South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons and NPT Negotiations, 1988–1989
- 5 South African Movement towards NPT Signature, 1990–1991
- 6 Post-NPT Accession
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 3 establishes the nexus between South African policies on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and their defiance thereof, and the continued parallel development of nuclear weapons. Drawing on recently declassified documents, I trace the national position of the South African government on NPT accession and the application of IAEA safeguards over the 1980s. Most importantly, the focus lies on domestic decision-making and how a small number of people in the South African government decided whether to sign the NPT. This also includes a careful analysis of Pretoria’s relations with the US government under President Ronald Reagan and related exchanges with the IAEA Secretariat under its Director-General Hans Blix, developing in parallel over the period from 1981 to 1988.
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- Disarming ApartheidThe End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991, pp. 67 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024