BANGKOK - Thanks to a loophole in the international regime to control the proliferation of nuclear weapons, military-ruled Myanmar could very well carry out its reported nuclear program behind a veil of secrecy, free of scrutiny from the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).That is the privilege Myanmar enjoys under the Small Quantities Protocol it signed with the Vienna-based IAEA in April 1995, three years after the Southeast Asian nation, which is also known as Burma, became party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Full Story
