Something tells me this isn?t going to end well. The Obama administration is reportedly planning a nuclear scientist swap with China.
Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman is working on a major Obama administration initiative that would renew scientist exchanges between U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and Chinese nuclear facilities.
The idea is aimed at promoting openness and transparency by China?s military about its secret, large-scale buildup of nuclear weapons, according to U.S. officials.
Critics say the plan is similar to an exchange program in the 1990s that sent U.S. nuclear scientists to China and produced one of the worst cases of nuclear espionage. Secrets about every deployed warhead in the U.S. arsenal were compromised, including the W-88 small nuclear warhead deployed on submarine-launched missiles.
?We?ve seen this movie before, and it has a bad ending,? one official said.
Officials familiar with the plan told Inside the Ring that the initiative was discussed during a recent policy committee meeting of senior national security officials at the White House.
The initiative is part of the administration?s arms-control-centered security policies. According to the officials, the administration hopes to coax the reluctant Chinese communist leadership and its military into engaging the United States in strategic nuclear talks, something China so far has refused.
?This is a way to reach out to [the Chinese] with multilateral arms-control programs,? said a second U.S. official familiar with the plan.
The initiative likely will face opposition from Congress. (Read More)
Are they out of their freaking minds? Let?s hope the initiative faces opposition from Congress. Good grief.
In related news, Russia hit the ?reset? button and set off two nuclear test missiles.
Smart Power.
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