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

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. Images of bomb casings at 42:52 mark credit to Mungo Poore. 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