This week's In the News examines serious allegations of security breaches at the US nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico and the possible transfer of secret data to China. In what is quickly devolving into a worst case scenario, it now appears that China has secured thousands of lines of invaluable computer code from the top-level nuclear weapons lab at the Los Alamos, New Mexico. The codes were allegedly transferred by scientist Wen Ho Lee from a secure system to an unclassified computer network at the lab in 1994 and 1995, where they were apparently accessed by someone who improperly used a password. The theft of these codes, in the opinion of some officials, compromises "virtually every nuclear weapon in the United States arsenal." Domestic politics have further clouded the situation, as many critics of the Clinton administration claim that earlier reports of possible security breaches were ignored by a government focused on normalizing US-China relations and promoting trade ties. The House Select Committee on US National Security and Military/ Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, chaired by Representative Christopher Cox (R-CA), completed an extensive report on the transfer of military technology in December 1998. However, the administration has delayed security clearance, attempting to keep large portions of the report classified. A sanitized version, along with a separate report by the Senate Intelligence Committee, are expected to be released in mid-May.