"Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons" - Guardian

 "Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons.

The "top secret" minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa's defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel's defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them "in three sizes". The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that "the very existence of this agreement" was to remain secret.

The documents, uncovered by an American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in research for a book on the close relationship between the two countries, provide evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons despite its policy of "ambiguity" in neither confirming nor denying their existence.

The Israeli authorities tried to stop South Africa's post-apartheid government declassifying the documents at Polakow-Suransky's request and the revelations will be an embarrassment, particularly as this week's nuclear non-proliferation talks in New York focus on the Middle East."  Guardian

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OK.  So, let's stop all the nonsense over whether or not Israel has a nuclear strike force.  And, oh by the way a proliferator in "three sizes."  One for the baby bear, one for the ...  Shimon Peres, man of peace...  Well, the money was going to be good.  pl 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons