Discrètement, au milieu de la fureur médiatique, le gouvernement états-unien ajoute quelques pelletées de terre sur le cercueil du grand homme et déclassifie pour la première fois les photos satellites du site d’expériences nucléaires du Kalahari (août 1977)
Proliferation Watch : US Intelligence Assessments of Potential Nuclear Powers, 1977–2001 | Wilson Center
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The Soviet Union assisted the United States in its effort to curb South Africa’s nuclear program in August 1977 when Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev sent President Jimmy Carter a message that Moscow’s spy satellites had noticed signs of nuclear weapons test preparations at a site in the Kalahari Desert. Very quickly the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) directed spy satellites to photograph the site which intelligence analysts later agreed was geared to nuclear testing. The U.S. government has declassified some of those satellite photographs for the first time.
