Report Says China Offered Widespread Help on Nukes
USA Today reports on new evidence of the extent to which China has shared its nuclear expertise:
Former Air Force secretary Thomas Reed, a former weapons lab scientist, paints a portrait of China as a reckless distributor of nuclear weapons know-how in a report released Thursday in PhysicsToday magazine. He charges the Chinese with giving extensive weapons support to Pakistan in detail far beyond a 2001 Defense Department report that acknowledged such links.
“The Chinese nuclear weapons program is incredibly sophisticated,” Reed says. “The scary part is how much Pakistan has learned from them.” The Chinese and Pakistani embassies in Washington did not reply to requests for comment on the report.
Read the full Physics Today report here.
