the Vela Incident and Beyond: South Africa's Secret Nuclear Weapons

Описание: Good topic for a Christmas special right?

A tale in 2 acts.
The Vela incident is already quite a popular topic online. But I haven't seen a video that discusses the evidence it detail yet, so I decided to make one. I would say this 'demystifies' the whole thing, but there isn't really anything to demystify.
'Act 2' discusses South Africa's nuclear arsenal. I've never seen a visual depiction of their warheads so I decided to make one myself.

Many thanks to:
Darth Rust for script-writing assistance
‪@Zach_Hazard‬ for the footage of Atomic Annie
SACGR for research assistance

Sources here:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ozfjyr...

Additional list of sources that demonstrate the Vela incident was due to a nuclear explosion:
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSA...

Video sources. Also contains some graphic footage of violence during and due to apartheid:
   • Vela  

"Buccaneer" (https://skfb.ly/YQsJ) by manilov.ap is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b....

Code for the data analysis and image retrieval here:
https://github.com/lambdaBoost/Nimbus...

00:00 intro
05:05 Prologue: don't be a sucker
07:46 Double Flash
20:17 The Vela Incident: Evidence
28:15 Nimbus 7: Digital Archeology
42:10 Gun Type Atomic Bombs
54:22 South African Warhead Design
1:04:03 Procedural Safety
1:07:24 Delivery
1:09:37 Why they were built
1:13:13 Uranium Enrichment
1:21:44 Further Developments
1:25:36 Present Day