Template talk:Nuclear weapons

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[edit] New template

I based this on the "Nuclear weaponry" section in the {{WMD}} template, with some rephrasing and re-arrangement (the other one didn't seem to be arranged in any particular order). I opted for a picture of the Fat Man bomb at the top because I thought it summed up a number of the key issues very well, being serious and important and historically relevant without being as sensationalistic as a fireball/mushroom cloud image (which I personally think is an over-used motif, visually speaking). But other thoughts and approaches are appreciated. --Fastfission 21:12, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] South Africa

South Africa, as a former first-tier nuclear power, should be noted in the template, no? --70.48.240.99 03:16, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

As South Africa currently is certainly no nuclear weapon state, I would opt to exclude it from the box. The box should represent a quick overview of nuclear weapons states, and South Africa is not one of them. Moreoever, also countries such as Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus possessed nuclear weapons after the Soviet Union fell apart, but gave them up (as independent nations). They would have to be excluded as well.