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Spain

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:Asterion^{User talk:Asterion} 00:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Iraq

should Iraq be updated to blue? yEvb0 15:04, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Cuba

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

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:Logical2u_Talk 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

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

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

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)