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I'd never heard this story; a true hero.
@ZaneSelvans Tom Lehrer humorously predicted South Africa would get the bomb. We need to get used to this sort of thing again since tfg is about to ignite a new bomb rush through his foolish international adventures.
https://youtu.be/oRLON3ddZIw?si=ObE8gs47e6RTvEDw
@ZaneSelvans @reedmideke What an absolute badass.
"what one does with Nazis is kill them".
Not one to mince words.
And a motto that certainly is fitting for our time.
@ZaneSelvans I don’t read the #NYT but worth mentioning Israel ignored global anti-apartheid boycotts to secure strategic resources like uranium and a military partner against Arab states, continuing arms sales and nuclear cooperation until South Africa’s 1991 program dismantlement. Post-apartheid South Africa cut ties with Israel over these historical links.
Israel’s foreign diplomacy was always based on deceit. It still is. Hasbara is one of its most known strategies.
[…] Israel ignored the United Nations Security Council–imposed arms embargo on South Africa while telling the world that it was complying.
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/israel-south-africa-apartheid-weapons?utm_source=perplexity
@oatmeal @ZaneSelvans Let's not forget the whistleblower of the other apartheid nuclear weapons program, still under cruel house arrest after years of vicious treatment including being abducted and smuggled in a "diplomatic bag!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu
Wow. Someone should make a movie.
Also, the article mentioned that the US initially helped South Africa with their nuclear program. I need to double check that, but WTF!
@ZaneSelvans incredible story!!
@ZaneSelvans not all heroes wear capes.
Had Apartheid South Africa become a DPRK, their peculiar brand of racist fascism would have spread throughout Africa, resonated with the usual wypipo population of First World, if only because nobody would have dared stop them.
After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC, noting that he had made sure the confession included “all my recommendations to the African National Congress” about the best way to sabotage Koeberg and other facilities.
“And, gloriously, the judge read it out in court,” Dr. Christie added. “So my recommendations went from the judge’s mouth” straight to the A.N.C.
Two years later, in December 1982, Koeberg was bombed by white A.N.C. operatives who had gotten jobs at the facility. They followed Dr. Christie’s instructions to the letter.
@ZaneSelvans best use of a courtroom ever
The guy who actually planted the bombs, and then escaped to Swaziland by bike.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-31-the-man-who-blew-up-koeberg/
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There is nothing laudable about attacking a power station.
Koeberg is an entirely civil installation, and was if anything an obstacle in the way of the South African nuclear weapons program. Not only did it divide their available trained manpower, but to get it built they had to allow much more international scrutiny (including inspections) of their nuclear industry, which had been been cloaked in secrecy.
But the anti-nuclear zealots are arrogant.