Assurances of peaceful intentions arouse o­nly skepticism... "Burma?s confirmation of plans to build a 10-megawatt nuclear reactor with the help of Russia?s federal atomic energy agency Rosatom has created nervousness and anxiety among Burma observers. The regime in Naypyidaw, facing international isolation and sanctions, claims that the planned nuclear reactor is to be built for a ?peaceful purpose.” Back in January 2002, then-deputy Foreign Minister Khin Maung Win declared that Burma?s ?interest in nuclear energy for peaceful purpose is longstanding.” Such assurances have met with skepticism o­n the part of the international community and Burmese at home and abroad, however..."