Buccaneers, and. Shackletons aL] could carry a first or early generation fission 79/ Griin:n, " IAiIA Safeguards - tr',']xere Do lie Stand Today? ", p. 37. 80/ See, e.g., Adelman ancl l(night " "Can South Africa Go Nuclear?", p' 626' Rochlin, 'rThe Development and. DepJ-oyrnent of liuclear ltreapons Systems in a Prol i ferstins '.'Ioil.r ". n" f2, 8f/ See, e.g., Greenwood et aJ.., lluclear Po'wer and lleapons Technologv , pp. 3-6. 82_/ I"Ii1l ian Van cleav€, 'Nuclear Technology and \leapons,' in llu.c-1s91 pr^l i1.a}"ati.\n L,hesF TT eds. Robert M. La\,J?enCe and JoeI larus (Lar,rrerrce: uoiveriity Press of Kansas, r9?l+), pp' 5l+-55.A/35 / \o?- nnglish Annex Page 25 weapon weighi.n8 450 to 1,100 kilograrmcs of the sort snrrttr /rfrina ic nr :t,,*l1:.:r manuracLurjnF. r,arser burkier ""o niiJrt"r"'iJr"it j"ttJ;t;"rtl";;;"i" 4')uu kl-Logrannes could be delivered. by cornmercial aircraft or roilitary transports"Alternatively, eventual deveLopm.ent by South Africa of either short anh intermediaterange ballistic or cruise missiles for delivering well -pachaged sophisticatednuclear weapons is not to be precluded. g3/ 83/ The l4il-itary Bal-ance f979-1980 (l,ondon: Internati.onal- Tnstitute for Strategic Studies, 1980); Bochlin, "The Development and Deploynent of Nucl-ear I'leapons Systens in a Proliferating llorlcl", pp. f2-15.Al3j / \oP Annex Pa.ge 25 IV. SOUTH A!'RICA ' S NUCLEAR WEAPON CAICULAT]ONS A. South Africa's nil-itary and political posture ,+. The fundarental guideline underfying the foreign policy and nilitary strategy of the Republ-ic of south Africa fias fornu-Iated as follovs in that Government I s f9?? White Paper on defence: "the principle of the right of the white nation to self-determination is not subiect to discussion". U tw d'iscussion of South Afrj-ca!s nilitary and political postu.e, therefore, must start from the special -.il-rret irn nFF'lad h\r ana'r-hai^ h^t ^Fl1r in snlth Africa itself but in the region vJ s Pst:jj:j::, as a whofe. Traditioi E6iE-:pts of national security interests ' threat