Monday, August 3, 2009
Burma’s Nuclear Secrets
From Sydney Morning Herald:
Is Burma preparing to build a nuclear arsenal? Two years of interviews with defectors have persuaded two Australian investigators, Desmond Ball and Phil Thornton, there is more to the claim than global scepticism suggests.
A FEW years back, a paranoid military regime packed up Burma’s capital and shifted it north a few hundred kilometres. Rangoon, it seems, simply wasn’t safe enough any more. The generals’ new home was to be known as the Abode of Kings; more commonly as Naypyidaw. A city rose from the tropical plains with shiny buildings and slick roadways – a strange priority in a country suffering chronic poverty and a health system at the bottom of world rankings.
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My Comment: To develop a nuclear program, Burma would need a huge infrastructure and the personnel to do it. For the moment ... they do not have it .... as far as we can tell.
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