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To: hmaly who wrote (124233)9/19/2000 9:36:27 AM
From: Daniel Schuh  Respond to of 1570818
 
Harry, an old story I always feel obligated to post when this subject comes up. I will quote the first couple paragraphs without comment.

Spies Versus Sweat: The Debate Over China's Nuclear Advance nytimes.com

When American bomb makers began visiting China in 1979, they were startled by increasingly pointed questions that suggested their Chinese peers were hot on the trail of the secret to building a modern nuclear arsenal. It allows H-bombs to be made so small that many can fit atop a single missile or be fired from trucks, submarines and other mobile platforms.

China succeeded on Sept. 25, 1992, the news coming from a spy who told his American handlers that Beijing had exploded a bomb based on the miniaturization secret.