THE MINI-NUKE CONSPIRACY, mandela’s nuclear nightmare

xx + 300pp., map, illus., hardback, d.w., spine faded, Faber & Faber, London, 1995

In 1993, F.W. de Klerk publicly acknowledged that South Africa’s apartheid government had secretly developed six atomic bombs, assuring the world that they had since been dismantled. Drawing on compelling evidence, the authors challenge this claim—suggesting that the truth may be far more troubling, and that a hidden nuclear legacy cast a long shadow over Mandela’s new democracy.