I always thought it was the Israelis first and the South Africans second for the nuclear bomb. The Israelis getting the technology from France and the US, South Africa getting the skinny from the British and/or France, and a little clandestine intel as well from sympathetic scientists.
After all, these countries were theorized to have been nuclear capable in the late 60s and early 70s, and both were cozy with 2/3 countries mentioned above.
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