Vela incident: The "South Atlantic Flash" is observed near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean

时间

1979年9月22日

类型

核试验

坐标

47.00° S, 40.00° E

标注位置：coordinates of the event it links, Vela incident。

Vela incident: The "South Atlantic Flash" is observed near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test conducted by South Africa and Israel.

1979 undeclared nuclear explosion

The Vela incident was an atmospheric nuclear explosion that occurred on 22 September 1979, near the South African territory of Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, roughly midway between Africa and Antarctica. This explosion is widely believed to have been an undeclared test of an Israeli nuclear weapon on the ocean surface, carried out with assistance from South Africa.

来自Wikipedia，CC BY-SA · 阅读文章

• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0来源页面
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · 称之为“Ungeklärtes Phänomen, vielleicht Atomexplosion südlich Afrikas (auch als Vela-Zwischenfall bekannt)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0来源页面
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · 称之为“incident Vela”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0来源页面
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · 称之为“在大西洋南部发生不明核爆炸事故（维拉事故）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0来源页面
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · 称之为“アメリカの人工衛星「ヴェラ・ホテル6911」がプリンス・エドワード諸島付近で「二重の閃光」を探知（ヴェラ事件）。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0来源页面