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The principle question that has hung in the air for the last 20 plus years has been more along the lines of "whose test was it?" than "was it really a test?". The choices were basically:

it was a South African test,
it was an Israeli test,
it was a joint South African-Israeli test.



From http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Safrica/Vela.html

For much more on the "Vela Incident" see this web page .
South Africa was working on nuclear weapons, but cancelled its program. It is taken basically as a fact, though there is no concrete proof, that Isreal posesses nuclear weapons and various means to deliver them. Isreal is a "one-bomb country" meaning that any nuclear hit would essentially end its existance. Isreal wants to be sure that never happens.

The two other wild cards right now are Iran and North Korea; there is frequent speculation about them in the news these days regarding how close they are to having nukes, or how many they already have.

To find out about all testing by all countries, go here.


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