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Title: | South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme: A Historical and International Perspective |
Authors: | Purkitt, Helen E. Burgess, Stephen |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 229-253 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | international politics biological weapons chemical weapons Military, Defense and Arms Politics and Government History and Exploration Drought and Desertification |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/823383 |
Abstract: | South Africa's chemical and biological warfare (CBW) programme, Project Coast, was a covert weapons of mass destruction programme sponsored by the former apartheid regime. While the evolution and dismantling of South Africa's nuclear programme was widely discussed, details about Project Coast programmes are still emerging. The primary published accounts to date are the testimonies and evidence presented at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1997 and 1998 and the criminal trial of the programme's director, Dr. Wouter Basson, from 2000 until April 2002. This article identifies the historical roots and factors that influenced the evolution of the programme. It also describes some of the complex international linkages that developed under the auspices of Project Coast. The article is based on published documents, official and off-the-record interviews with officials and researchers in the United States and South Africa. Notes, ref., sum. |