Is Burma Building A Nuclear Weapons Program?


What's Burma Building In There? -- Foreign Policy Blog

This Google Earth image of a mysterious building in Northern Burma posted by the New America Foundation's Jeffrey Lewis on the Arms Control Wonk blog has been making the Internet rounds.
It may look like an Olympic-sized swimming pool, but the thing is huge -- 80 meters long on each side and seems to roughly match up with the Sydney Morning Herald's report of a Burmese nuclear reaction construction project. The Institute for Science and International Security has more.

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More News On Burma's Nuclear Weapon's Program

Is Myanmar acquiring nuclear weapons? -- Rediff
Report: Defectors Allege Burma Seeking to Build Nuclear Weapons with North Korea's Help -- Voice of America
Defectors tell of Burma's secret nuclear reactor -- Independent
Burma obtains North Korean help with suspicious nuclear programme -- The Telegraph
The Burmese Bomb -- Strategy Page
North Korea and Myanmar -- Joong And Daily
Atomic agency urged to examine Burma nuclear claims -- The Age
Defectors tell of Burma's secret nuclear reactor -- Independent
Burma obtains North Korean help with suspicious nuclear programme -- The Telegraph
The Burmese Bomb -- Strategy Page
North Korea and Myanmar -- Joong And Daily
Atomic agency urged to examine Burma nuclear claims -- The Age
Burma's deadly course -- The Australian
Ready for this? Nukes in Burma report -- The Atlantic
Burma's Bomb -- Washington Times editorial

My Comment: When there is smoke, there is fire. In the case of a suspected nuclear weapons program in Burma, evidence indicates that there is a definite interest by the Burmese Government to at least "look at this" possibility, including spending money on developing some rudimentary infrastructure.

Should we be worried? .... hmmmm .... probably.

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