Russia to build nuclear reactor for Burma "Russia’s atomic energy agency, Rosatom, said yesterday that it had agreed to build a nuclear research reactor for military-ruled Burma, which has been branded by the US as an “outpost of tyranny”." International disintegration (levelling the playing field) On the one hand, technological innovation is being promoted in a third world country. Hence, we could register this as a potential move away from a less wealthy and more disorderly world which would constitute a dark age. On the other hand, however, the news illustrates how the monopoly the West (1945: the US) once enjoyed in the field of nuclear power is being eroded. In this sense, the international playing field is becoming more level again.