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Revealed: Burma’s nuclear bombshell

Revealed: Burma’s nuclear bombshell
Sydney Morning Herald Hamish McDonald Asia-Pacific Editor August 1, 2009

BURMA’s isolated military junta is building a secret nuclear reactor and plutonium extraction facilities with North Korean help, with the aim of acquiring its first nuclear bomb in five years, according to evidence from key defectors revealed in an exclusive Herald report today.

The secret complex, much of it in caves tunnelled into a mountain at Naung Laing in northern Burma, runs parallel to a civilian reactor being built at another site by Russia that both the Russians and Burmese say will be put under international safeguards……………………………..

Washington is increasingly concerned that Burma is the main nuclear proliferation threat from North Korea, after Israel destroyed in September 2007 a reactor the North Koreans were apparently building in Syria.

Revealed: Burma’s nuclear bombshell

August 1, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, ASIA, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons