Nope, Singapore is.

Good lah. Since burma and singapore good good fren, next time singapore can import nuclear bomb from burma, then burma can buy standard weapons
accessories from singapore lah.

Maybe the N.korea nuclear techno half past six 1, accidentally triggerred the bomb. then all the general, junta all kena wiped out lah.

“Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo said Sunday. “I can’t believe that a nuclear programme is high up on their list of priorities… They have enough problems of their own,” Yeo said in response to a question at the World Economic Forum on East Asia.” Unquote.

Such reasoning to help ward off any suspicion on the intent of the Burmese Military Junta is not only stupid but harmful to the rest of the world.

Didn’t the US, China, USSR, Israel, Brazil, Pakistan, India, France and even North Korea developed their nuclear programs during a time when each and everyone of them were having lots of internal (as well as external) problems?

What the hell is a highly educated elite scholar-cum-military-general Foreign Minister trying to do? He thinks other national leaders are dumb and stupid?

And there’s the rub – so long as monetary gains are a priority, any other arguement can be cast aside with ease and conscience muffled. There are many I know who actually hope Myanmar becomes a member of the nuclear club as they feel, just like making arms (and refusing to listen to pleas to clamp down on lucrative arms-related businesses like the production of anti-personnel mines), someday, it’ll come round and bite you.

And when Myanmar becomes yet another North Korea and goes round blackmailing its neighbours, hurting their interests in the process, these same friends of mine would really love to see what those who allowed it to happen will be able to do.

http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Singapore_Sees_Myanmar_Nuclear_Program_As_Unlikely_999.html

Just look for this guy called AQ Khan. He was responsible for Pakistan’s nuclear program. He was in a large way responsible for spreading it to Iran and North Korea. He was going to give it to Libya but Libya chickened out.

You just need lots of land and a few hundred million dollars to spare. No problem. States acquiring nuclear weapons – not far fetched at all. All it takes is a few PhDs and a cookbook.

Does this, I don’t know, strike anyone as a wee bit unnerving? Even if they have no plans to lob nuclear warheads at us (which would be silly, since their chieftains get their medical treatment here) we should still consider the following scenarios:

1. Junta tests nukes, gets it wrong, fallout drifts southward. Whoops! Everyone has cancer.
2. Junta gets annoyed with another country and tosses a nuke their way. Whoops! Looks like they were nuclear-armed too, and retaliated. And so on. Cue cancer for everyone.
3. Junta feeling the pinch after spending a few years’ GNP on a nuclear programme. Junta decides to sell off the odd nuke, cash terms, no questions asked. Whoops! Sold it to Mas Selamat’s vengeful spirit, Keppel Harbour gets vaporized.
4. Their test reactors go critical because they used mud and sticks to build the containment facilities. Cancer again.
5. Junta collapses due to silly. Even more unpleasant people take over, and launch nukes at us. Nice knowing you guys.
6. Junta is a dick to another nuclear power, say, India. Said nuclear power turns Burma to glass. MUTANTS ROAM THE EARTH AND YOU MUST WEAR A BIKER JACKET WITH ONLY ONE SLEEVE (cancer was getting repetitive).

dun worry. Burma’s nuclear technology from North Korea and Iran lao-pok-pok. Singapore very small. If they want to hantum us, sure mis-aim end up kerna JB. Then lagi sian no more pirated dvds.

“if one irresponsible and pariah state possess them”
I think #12 sums up the sentiment against Myanmar having nuclear weapons (and hence should be deprived of nuclear power too)

The question i have is who/what defines “irresponsible and pariah”?
Basicically, it boils down to politics, posturing, perspective and propaganda.

To the north koreans, US having nukes near them is an extremely uncomfortable thought. After all, US have invaded Iraq and other places. In all honesty, i will not blame them if they think US is “irresponsible and pariah”. But of course, that is one country’s opinion. And they do not have the same inlfuence on world opinion as US.

I am open to Myanmar being classified as “irresponsible and pariah”. But we should (i) have a clear criteria to decide who falls within that category and (ii) treat everyone who falls within the same catagory in the same manner.

The current state of the world makes it into a political circus- i do not like you, i classify you as “irresponsible and pariah” and i get my friends to follow suit. If I like you (think Israel), you are ok, even if you are doing the same things as the N.Koreans and threatening or worse, invading neighbours from time to time.

It is crazy to run things based on someone’s like and dislikes. While i can understand people do not like the government in Myanmar esp after the jail extension, we shld refrain from falling into the same hypocritical, arbitrary attitude that some major powers have now.

Both Israel and Japan are secretly producing and hiding nuclear weapons, while Pakistan and Brazil can openly have them. Why?

Robust infrastructure for Israel, Japan and Brazil. Face up to the reality of the complex global political landscape. Even now, people are fearful of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands.

All talk of equality will ring hollow if one irresponsible and pariah state possess them. And like it or not, Singapore is part of the “western” orbit in many aspects.

It can be argued that our growth and affluence was in large part attributed to a Cold War global order that allowed us to thrive.

Why this monopoly of power by the Whitemen and hypocrisy of double/triple standards?

Both Israel and Japan are secretly producing and hiding nuclear weapons, while Pakistan and Brazil can openly have them. Why?

This increases the insecurity complex in the rest of ASEAN, if it is true and comes to fruition under the current junta. Once the fears are flagged, it is hard for the country concerned to fully ameliorate those concerns.

If possible, most of us do not want a impoverished, unstable state owning nuclear weapons. We have to live in the real world, not a world of theories about fariness and a presumptive inalienable right to own these things if those states are currently incapable of looking out for her own people.

We do not need a situation where nuclear fuel is stolen for terror purposes because of poor and lax security or complicit behavior by “turned” individuals in the nuclear infrastructure of those kinds of states.