Moreover, theMandela government vig

Moreover, the
Mandela government vigorously opposed U.S. judicial actions against
executives of the South African arms industry accused of violating the
arms embargo on Iraq—a position carved out earlier by the de Klerk
government. Mandela did, however, firmly oppose South Africa’s becoming
a nuclear power or possessing chemical and biological weapons.
But he balked at the push by the United States and United Kingdom for
South Africa to destroy the research on which the apartheid regime’s
chemical- and biological-weapons programs had been based, accepting
his military’s argument that it was a “national asset.