![]() ![]() The Cox report published in May claimed that stolen US technology had enabled China to jump from primitive nuclear capability to "modern thermonuclear weapons designs" in only a few years. But the official Chinese news agency ensured the neutron bomb claim would get maxi mum publicity by issuing special bulletins in English and Chinese. The revelation that China has such technology came during a rebuttal of allegations in the US congress that China had stolen nuclear secrets. ![]() They were developed by the United States military to kill soldiers protected by armour against attack by lesser nuclear warheads. Neutron bombs are small thermonuclear weapons that release higher radiation doses than conventional warheads. The official, Mr Zhao Qizheng, said: "Since China already possessed atom bomb and hydrogen bomb technologies, it was quite logical and natural for it to master the neutron bomb technology through its own efforts over a reasonable period of time." The surprise announcement by a senior official in Beijing said that Chinese scientists had mastered the design of the neutron bomb, and of miniaturised nuclear warheads, "as early as in the 1970s and 1980s". China said yesterday it had the technology to make the neutron bomb as it stepped up its war of words with pro-independence Taiwan.
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