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David Kelly and Nuclear weapons
There was a site called atrueindependentscotland.com where I saw an article about Dr David Kelly and South African nuclear weapons, it was a thread on reddit/great awakening circa 2014. Unfortunately it wasn’t archived and Reddit has scrubbed a lot of their old pages.
Margaret Thatcher was asked by the apartheid SA government to supply them with nuclear weapons, she liked the idea so gave the go ahead, this was around 1978. Dr Kelly was given the job of getting seven bombs to a warehouse in Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman, they were flown there either by civilian aircraft or RAF Transport Command. His orders were to put the bombs into the warehouse, shut the doors and walk away. Don’t wait around, just walk away which he did.
The South Africans tested one out at sea, this might be be the famous Vela Incident where a satellite noticed the double pulse of an atmospheric nuclear explosion near Prince Edward Island in the Indian Ocean. They also tested one near Bouvet Island but it failed to detonate. 5 nukes left.
On the fall of apartheid in 1990 the new president Nelson Mandela was told of the existence of these weapons and ordered them to be dismantled, which they were not, they were sold to another country or countries which might or might not be North Korea or the Yazuka. President Mandela was not told of this, he was told they had been dismantled.
One was found in London in a warehouse in the East End of London in the run up to the 2012 Olympics, by good intelligence work by the British. It was going to be detonated during the Olympics, who the countries or organizations involved in this plot is a mystery.
There was a big Royal Navy presence on the Thames and at Weymouth Bay at that time, AA missiles on top of tower blocks, AEW Sea King helicopters, Typhoon fighters based at RAF Northolt and a Marine Commando Brigade on board HMS Ocean moored in the Thames. Also there were a lot of plastic coffins available for this security exercise
Four left.
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