ISIS has released a long-awaited trio of papers on Burma’s very odd nuclear programs.
Burma: A Nuclear Wanabee; Suspicious Links to North Korea; High-Tech Procurements (January 28, 2010)
A look at Burmese high tech illicit procurement efforts, the cooperation with North Korea in the areas procurement and development, and imagery analysis of several suspicious facilities.
Exploring Claims about Secret Nuclear Sites in Myanmar (January 28, 2010)
An analysis of several facilities described by Burmese dissidents as involved in a Burmese nuclear program. More ›
Deep Connections between Myanmar’s Department of Atomic Energy and the DTVE (January 28, 2010)
ISIS traces the links between Burma’s Department of Technical and Vocational Education and the Department of Atomic Energy
Some loyal readers have been writing me about Burma in the past few weeks; I implored them to hold off while ISIS completed what is a lot of grist for the crowdsourcing mill. Have at it.
I just want to make the same point from my Wilson Center talk — proliferation networks still exist, gas centrifuges are a very fundamental challenge to the nonproliferation regime, and there are countries we don’t know about yet that have clandestine centrifuge programs.
Burma may or may not be one of these countries. It may go the reactor route, or no route at all. But we are at the beginning, not the end, of a new wave of nuclear aspirants, enabled my much reduced barriers to entry to the nuclear club. The interesting policy question is whether we can devise solutions that preserve the nonproliferation regime in the face of rapid technological change.