Inside Intel / Myanmar Learns To Love The Bomb?

From Haaretz:

Myanmar has been in international headlines of late (or has been getting its 15 minutes of fame) because of the conduct of the repressive military junta that has ruled the country formerly known as Burma with an iron fist since 1988. (Previously, from 1962, the autocratic General Ne Win was in control.) The junta's cruelty found expression in May, 2008 when it refused to accept international humanitarian assistance for the victims of Cyclone Narkis in which some 50,000 people lost their lives, some 80,000 were injured and tens of thousands were left homeless.

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My Comment: I am very skeptical of these reports. To have a functional and viable nuclear weapons program a country must be first willing to sacrifice billions of dollars, needed resources, and a human pool of professionals who should be doing something else.

Does Myanmar have the means to pull this off. I doubt it. Countries like Syria, Iran, North Korea .... they all have already spent billions and put their best minds into the effort. All that they have to show for it are two North Koran nuclear tests that at best were nuclear "fissiles" .... i.e. duds.

So if Myanmar wishes to get into this game so be it. But to have a viable and real nuclear weapons program .... they are far away from that. However .... if they are part of an alliance that is working together to develop nuclear weapons (i.e. working with Iran, Syria, North Korea, etc.) .... that becomes a different story.