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Burma building nuclear weapons, says Jane's defence weekly | Satellite images have revealed that Burma is pursuing a nuclear program, the military journal Jane's Intelligence Review says.
The photos of buildings and security fences near Burmese capital, Naypyidaw, confirm
reports by Major Sai Thein Win of machine tool factories and other plants alleged
to be part of a nascent program to build nuclear weapons, the magazine reports.
Major Sai said he worked at two factories involved in the nuclear program. His
report to a Burmese opposition news website, Democratic Voice of Burma, based
in Norway , included documents and colour photographs of the interior of the installations.
''They will not make a bomb with the technology they currently possess or the
intellectual capability,'' The Age quoted Jane's analyst Allison Puccioni, as
saying. ''The two factors do make it possible to have a route to one,'' Puccioni
added. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed concern
that North Korea and Burma may be expanding military ties and sharing nuclear
technology. In a statement issued yesterday, Jane's said Burma 's nuclear program
was ''overly ambitious with limited expertise''. While Burma has signed international
agreements to control nuclear weapons use, it has not agreed to more recent changes
in the treaties, and therefore, is not subject to international inspections, the
magazine said. ''Someone had to be assisting them, that's the frightening thing,''
said David Kay, a former United Nations weapons inspector. He added: '' Burma
is uniquely incapable of carrying this through.'' |
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