"....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....We’ve seen this movie before, and it has a bad ending,” `one official` said...."
"..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...."
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