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Article: CHINA GETS CLOSE TO APPLYING STOLEN NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 14, 1999
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For the first time, China is close to deploying a nuclear missile with a warhead whose design draws on stolen American secrets, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
A long-range Chinese missile that has already been flight-tested, known as the Dong Feng-31, is being equipped with a small nuclear warhead whose design uses secret U.S. technology. The technology is believed to have been stolen from a government weapons laboratory, according to U.S. intelligence estimates. The missile is expected to be deployed within three or four years, according to the estimates.
Since the furor over Chinese atomic espionage began, the Clinton administration has ...