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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: South African nuclear weapons
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Date: 27 Jan 91 11:33:03 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: mhr@cs.aber.ac.uk
>	The question is, does South Africa have nuclear 
>weapons? If I remember there was a mysterious flash seen by
>an American satellite over the Indian Ocean in the early 1980s
> was this infact a meteor, or a test.

Nobody (who will talk) is quite sure.  The flash had some odd characteristics.

If it was a surface event, it was way off in the middle of nowhere, a good
place for a quiet little nuclear test.  Speculation was that it was a joint
SA/Israeli venture.

The alternate theory is that it was a micrometeorite hit on the satellite
that happened to do just the right things.
-- 
If the Space Shuttle was the answer,   | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
what was the question?                 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry