31.   China has stolen our most precious nuclear secrets and is using them to extend its influence over Asia.

32.   Congressional Republicans piled on as well, saying the White House was slow to respond when it learned of the pilfering of nuclear secrets.

33.   Even before a Lab employee was fired last week on suspicion of selling nuclear secrets to the Chinese, Grothus had decided that the entire operation was ugly.

34.   FBI officials have said it is possible that others were involved in the theft of nuclear secrets from Los Alamos, but they have not yet identified other suspects.

35.   Federal officials are investigating the disappearance and reappearance at the laboratory of two computer hard drives containing nuclear secrets.

36.   Even worse for Berger personally were charges that he reacted too passively when told about the suspected Chinese theft of nuclear secrets.

37.   He also asked the board for recommendations to strengthen protections against the loss of nuclear secrets.

38.   He denied passing US nuclear secrets to the Chinese government.

39.   He served as legal adviser for a select House committee that said China had obtained American nuclear secrets by theft, espionage and other means.

40.   He ordered changes in the computer security procedures to make it more difficult to move nuclear secrets out of the classified networks.