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Re:Ukraine Conflict Live Map by markvdb on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @01:59PM (#30432019)
South Africa had its own nuclear weapons. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma...

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Re:Ukraine Conflict Live Map by jessriedel on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @02:39PM (#30432576)
Those were simple gun-type pure fission weapons (~6 kiloton), which are two orders of magnitude smaller than the typical thermonuclear weapons (~1 megaton) left by the USSR in Ukraine.
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