South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Many individuals and institutions on both sides of the Atlantic have provided invaluable help in completing this book. We gratefully acknowledge the time and cooperation of all who made this book possible. We also gratefully acknowledge the financial support necessary to make this book possible from the Institute of National Security Studies (INSS), U.S. Air Force Academy and its director, James Smith; the U.S. Air Force’s Counterproliferation Center and its director, Barry Schneider; and the Department of Political Science and the Naval Academy Research Council at the United States Naval Academy. For assisting with the research and writing of the book, we would like to thank our spouses, Janet C. Beilstein and James W. Dyson. For making publication possible we acknowledge the efforts of Dee Mortensen and the editorial staff of Indiana University Press. We would also like to thank the many interviewees in South Africa and the United States. In particular, we are especially grateful to Jakkie Cilliers and his colleagues at the Institute of Security Studies, Pretoria; Helmoed Romer-Heitman, Jane’s Defence Weekly Southern Africa correspondent; Dr. Renfrew Christie, University of the Western Cape; and Mr. Nick Badenhorst , private defense analyst, for providing their expertise. By its very nature this type of book is bound to spark some controversy . We would like our readers to know that we followed standard professional guidelines in deciding when to report allegations and disputed facts. Thus, we required at least two independent sources of corroboration to consider any claim worthy of reporting. When a source wished to remain anonymous, we maintained our guarantee of anonymity, but we also required verification by other sources . For example, while several analysts have been critical of some of the information reported in Plague Wars, we have only reported information from Plague Wars that we corroborated through other sources. We also did our own research confirming information about right-wing supremacist activities during the post-1994 era. Several of these activities, discussed in earlier publications such as Plague Wars, are amplified in this book. The views expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. government, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Naval Academy, or Air University. SOUTH AFRICA’S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ...