"Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile yesterday disclosed that arming the Philippines with a nuclear weapon was among the objectives of the construction of the now mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
In a news forum in Quezon City, Enrile admitted that this was the first time he revealed about the preparation for a weapon of mass destruction planned during the administration of the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos.
"'By the way, if we continued with that power plant and we did not tinker with it, today, China will not challenge us even if we are a small nation,” said Enrile who served as the defense chief during the Marcos regime.
"'That was intended to prepare us to have nuclear weapons,” the opposition stalwart said.
"The country, which is now the object of alleged bullying tactics of neighboring China, has lost its chance to produce its own nuclear weapon because the BNPP was mothballed even though government had fully paid its foreign loan to build it.
"''At that time when we were setting up the Westinghouse nuclear power plant, there was no non-proliferation treaty yet. That was one of the plans,' Enrile said, referring to the world’s most devastating war weapon..."
http://www.tempo.com.ph/2016/02/14/news/main/ph-had-plans-to-make-nuke-arms/#lzEjg7qAjD5DVM28.99
Does anyone see any possibility of this actually happening?