Disarming Apartheid

South Africa remains the only state that developed a nuclear weaponscapability but ultimately decided to dismantle existing weapons andabandon the programme. Disarming Apartheid reconstructs the SouthAfrican decision-making and diplomatic negotiations over the country''snuclear weapons programme and its international status drawing onnew and extensive archival material and interviews.This deeply researched study brings to light a unique disarmamentexperience. It traces the country''s previously neglected path towardsaccession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons(NPT). Rather than relying primarily on US government archives thebook joins the burgeoning field of national nuclear histories based onunprecedented access to policymakers and documents in the countrystudied. Robin E. Mser in addition to providing access to importantnew documents offers original interpretations that enrich the study ofnuclear politics for historians and political scientists.