The World - News from Aug. 14, 1988
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Foreign Minister Roelof F. (Pik) Botha confirmed that South Africa, long believed to be developing a nuclear weapon, is capable of producing an atomic bomb. Botha, asked at a news conference in Vienna whether South Africa has developed a nuclear bomb, said, “We have the capability to do so should we want to.” But Botha, speaking after talks with U.S., Soviet and British officials on the possibility of Pretoria signing the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, declined to elaborate.
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