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Spain
[edit]should Spain be updated to blue? I think that, because dictator Franco had a nuclear weapons research program. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.220.31.203 (talk) 20:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC).
- I had updated this as for the text in the article. --User:AsterionUser talk:Asterion 00:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Iraq
[edit]should Iraq be updated to blue? yEvb0 15:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Cuba
[edit]Cuba should be blue? Cuban Missile Crisis --67.49.49.142 08:34, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- Only if the dozens of countries the U.S. based it's nuclear weapons in are also blue. Cuban Missile Crisis] was USSR owned/operated nuclear weapons based in Cuba. There is a case for colouring in another colour all states that agreed to host nuclear weapons bases for other states. Rwendland 13:50, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
North Korea
[edit]Should we change the colour to reflect it's apparently confirmed nuclear test to Orange? That would mean we could remove the pink legend. User:Logical2uTalk 21:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- It's not clear that NK is a "nuclear power" yet (orange). I wonder if we should have a colour for countries that have tested a device but not yet known to have widely deployed weapons - we could redefine pink to be that then :-) So define pink as "States that have tested but not yet widely deployed nuclear weapons"? Rwendland 23:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- As of May 2009 it is now clear DPRK has tested nuclear weapons. The magenta category can be eliminated.
- orange is ok for DPRK.218.186.17.240 (talk) 05:42, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Middle East
[edit]Why are Kuwat, Qatar, UAE and Yemen in light yellow? As far as I'm aware they aren't in pursuit of nuclear weapons.
- See List of states with nuclear weapons, for details on the countries identified on the map.--Gerash77 18:44, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, well there aren't any details thereabout those nations.
- The nations mentioned in yellow are listed. There is Iran, and the second section lists Saudi Arabia and GCC. --Gerash77 00:26, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I don't think there's any basis for listing any Arab country as being suspected of having a nuclear weapons program. Some have interpreted the interest by the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahraink, Qatar, Oman and the UAE) in nuclear power as a sign of interest in nuclear weapons to counterbalance Iran, but that is an insufficient basis for claims of a nuclear weapons program. There have been accusations against Syria, but these are unsubstantiated.
Also, I think the only Arab countries it makes sense to list as having had nuclear weapons programs are Iraq and Libya. I'm not aware of any substantial evidence that Egypt had a nuclear weapons program. Algeria might be listed in a separate category of countries once suspected of having nuclear weapons programs. NPguy 20:40, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Iran & Saudi Arabia
[edit]Yellow colour: "States suspected of being in the process of developing nuclear weapons and/or nuclear programs"
Suspected by who? Anyone? --82.183.224.40 23:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
Suspicion of Iran I'm sure anyone could find a source for. BUt Saudi Arabia? And Kuwait? UAE? Says who? These should be removed unless sources are provided. JosiahHenderson (talk) 01:24, 8 November 2009 (UTC)\
- A quick google search will come up with lots of reliable sources of claims that Iran is in the process of developing nuclear weapons. For example:http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iran/nuclear_program/index.html
- But, in the case of saudi arabia I found http://www.nti.org/e_research/e3_40a.html. I do not think that saudi arabia is widely thought of to have nuclear weapons and there is no source it should not be highlighted in yellow.
South Africa
[edit]Did South Africa really possess a nuclear weapon? I thought they had only a programme but not an actual weapon. Kasper kala (talk) 12:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, six bombs. Check out South Africa and weapons of mass destruction. Rwendland (talk) 13:58, 20 May 2008 (UTC)