{"id":5851,"date":"2010-06-07T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:07:29","slug":"report-burma-developing-nuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/07\/report-burma-developing-nuke\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Burma developing nuke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5852\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/nuke-blast-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"nuke blast\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" \/>Smuggled evidence shows Burma&#8217;s military rulers are secretly <a title=\"acquiring\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/03\/AR2010060304859.html\" target=\"_blank\">acquiring<\/a> components for a nuclear weapons program, though it appears the impoverished nation is many years away from developing an actual bomb.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/\">Political science<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Joseph Wippl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/wippl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Wippl<\/a>, a 30-year career <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/\">CIA <\/a>officer, says the report developed by the dissident group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvb.no\/\">Democratic Voice of Burma<\/a>, again\u00a0shows the need for accurate intelligence collection.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There is no country so unimportant or so isolated as not to require intelligence and U.S. intelligence community expertise on that country or region.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nContact Joseph Wippl, 617-353-8992, <a href=\"mailto:jwippl@bu.edu\">jwippl@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smuggled evidence shows Burma&#8217;s military rulers are secretly acquiring components for a nuclear weapons program, though it appears the impoverished nation is many years away from developing an actual bomb.\u00a0 Political science Professor Joseph Wippl, a 30-year career CIA officer, says the report developed by the dissident group Democratic Voice of Burma, again\u00a0shows the need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[176,3027,962,3107,3029,2891,3028,2310,3108,2892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7718,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions\/7718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}