In the wake of an alarming report on China’s decades-long effort to recruit scientists from the top nuclear lab in the United States, House Republicans are calling on the Biden administration to take action to prevent the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from further exploiting American research and technology.
In a letter (pdf) sent Wednesday to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar, a group of 11 Republican members of Congress said they have “serious concerns” over the national security threat unveiled in the new report.
The report (pdf), published last month by strategic intelligence company Strider Technologies, claims that the CCP has been recruiting “leading scientists” from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, an institution known for producing the first atomic bombs used in World War II….