He might have wiped the egg off his face first. According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. officials suspect that an as yet unnamed American scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory passed technical goodies about the W88 warhead to China in the mid-1980s -- and that the incident was just one in a 20-year espionage effort by Beijing. The officials told the paper that the highly secret information may have saved China "between two and 10 years" in its warhead design efforts. The good news? Beijing hasn't built any missiles using the W88 information. Maybe the Cold War is over after all.
China: We Didn't Spy -- This Time
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WASHINGTON: If it's any comfort to President Clinton, China doesn't much like
Congress either. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao said Thursday
that "the Chinese side hereby expresses its strong resentment and firm
opposition" to a congressional report which concluded that Beijing has been
working for decades to steal American missile technology. "Obsessed with the
Cold War mentality, a few congressmen run counter to the historical trend and
fabricate rumors out of thin air in an
attempt to obstruct improvement in Sino-U.S. relations," Zhu said.