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That question lies at the core of the dire declarations in the report that China has systematically stolen our vital security secrets, pilfering design information on every advanced thermonuclear warhead we deploy, on missile guidance, even on the never fielded neutron bomb, to acquire weapons knowledge "on a par" with the U.S. With "insatiable" appetite and "enormous" energy over decades, Beijing's agents mined valuable military information from every corner of the American military-industrial complex and haven't given up yet. From that time to the present, a permissive, often inept U.S. government let the People's Republic help...
...report makes giant leaps of assumption about the military capabilities China gained from its spying and high-technology purchases. Cox & Co. assert that "the stolen U.S. secrets have helped China fabricate and successfully test modern strategic thermonuclear weapons." They state that Beijing may test a long-range mobile solid-fuel-missile system this year and could be ready to deploy...
What a vision. What an illusion. For countries like India, there are things more important than norms. Power, for example. Better still, thermonuclear power...
...manages to cut off loans from international institutions, and major donor nations such as Japan, Germany and Denmark carry out their threats to withhold aid, ?India?s government will find it?s made a disastrous miscalculation,? says McGirk. After all, India may have advanced thermonuclear weapons capability -- but it remains a Third World economy...
...stage, two or three years from now, could mean a return to some form of East-West cold war. And since nuclear weapons are the only way NATO could defend the Baltic states against a threat from Russia, it could also mean a return to the terrible days when thermonuclear missile forces confronted each other across European borders. The dream of a generation could turn out to be a recurring nightmare, and the Senate voted...