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Seems so: https://robocop.fandom.com/wiki/Pretoria https://robocop.fandom.com/wiki/Pretoria Only in the movies though. No country would risk a tactical nuke in

• boomboomsubban 3y ago
  >No country would risk a tactical nuke in their own territory, that's self-defeating. No one had done that, but that's the general theory as to why South Africa developed nukes.
  • meepmorp 3y ago
    Possibly, but per a 1993 NY Times article on the program: > Mr. de Klerk told Parliament that the program, one of the nuclear era's most closely guarded secrets, was begun in 1974 because of the apartheid Government's sense of isolation and its fear of Communist designs in the region. Of course, that doesn't preclude internal use.
    • jasfi 3y ago
      I still don't think they would have used it internally, but perhaps as a threat to neighboring countries. Really glad it was shutdown!
  • dragonwriter 3y ago
    > No one had done that, but that’s the general theory as to why South Africa developed nukes. No, it was for external use; that’s why when there was a clear internal existential threat, instead of using the weapons, they dismantled them and the program to prevent the successor regime from having them.