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China admits thievery.
Instead, it blamed what may be the West's worst espionage disaster of the nuclear age on simple American carelessness. We have never stolen nuclear or military secrets from the United States. It was for America to decide whether it should tighten security procedures. An investigation by the New York Times revealed on Wednesday that virtually every nuclear weapon in America's vast arsenal had been compromised by a spy who downloaded millions of lines of secret code from a secure computer into an unclassified one which could be tapped by an outside power. It is now believed in America that China has stolen or otherwise acquired enough information to reverse engineer America's nuclear arsenal, and could therefore create a replica of its own.