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Article: China Says It Can Build Neutron Bomb; Beijing Attempts to Discredit Cox Report on Theft of U.S. Secrets
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- The Washington Post
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- July 15, 1999
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The Chinese government announced today that it long ago mastered
the technology for building a neutron bomb, emphasizing that Chinese
scientists developed the weapon on their own, not through the theft
of U.S. nuclear secrets, as has been alleged.
The announcement comes about six weeks after the release of a
report written by Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) that said China has
stolen many secrets from U.S. nuclear laboratories over the last 20
years -- including information on the neutron bomb.
China made its proclamation in a report titled "Facts Speak Louder
Than Words, and Lies Will Collapse by Themselves -- Further
Refutation of the Cox Report." The report, which was released by the