CIA Chief: Lee Data Couldn’t Build Bomb
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CIA Director George J. Tenet said nuclear secrets downloaded by scientist Wen Ho Lee would offer another country “a graduate course in nuclear weapons design” but not the means to build a weapon, a written statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee said. “This information would help primarily from a design perspective . . . ,” Tenet said. “But for a country to . . . deploy a nuclear weapon, more is required than design codes.”
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