The Irrawaddy charts the timeline on the evolution of Burma?s efforts to create a nuclear research facility... "Burma?s nuclear ambitions, spotlighted by last month?s announcement that Russia has agreed to help the regime build a nuclear research facility, date back at least seven years. In December 1995, the junta signed the Bangkok Treaty, banning the development, manufacture, possession, control, stationing, transport, testing or use of nuclear weapons under the terms of the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Five years later, after a visit to Moscow by Burma?s minister for science and technology, U Thaung, the junta?s nuclear plans became clearer..."