Only one nation in the world has given up nuclear weapons: South Africa.
South Africa developed nuclear weapons in 1982 and officially ended their nuclear
weapon program in 1993. They had six nuclear warheads at the time they gave the program up.
The program was conducted under the white supremacist apartheid regime. The regime was
afraid that the wave of independence in Africa would lead to South Africa being surrounded by
Communist regimes. South African troops fought in Angola against Marxist independence
movements and a lot of Cuban troops sent there by Castro.
They were afraid when Northern Rhodesia became Zambia. Angola and Mozambique were
Portuguese (independent 1974) and Nambia (ruled by South Africa (independent 1989). Angola
remains Marxist. The ANC, South Africa’s ruling party, was branded as Communist before the
apartheid regime collapsed. There had been a long and bitter guerrilla war.
South Africa is probably the only African nation with the industrial base capable of
manufacturing nuclear weapons. The only other might be Egypt. Africa, like Latin America, is
free of any nuclear weapons.
[The link below is about South Africa giving up nuclear weapons. Scroll down a bit to find the
appropriate section on the site].
https://world101.cfr.org/global-era-issues/nuclear-proliferation/south-africa-why-countries-acquir
e-and-abandon-nuclear
