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   An engineer faces a charge of stealing nuclear trade secrets from his   
   employer in California, federal authorities report.   
      
   The 57-year-old San Jose man copied more than 3,600 files containing trade   
   secrets relating to nuclear launch detection and tracking systems, the   
   U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in a   
   Feb. 7 news release.   
      
   The stolen files “include blueprints for sophisticated infrared sensors   
   designed for use in space-based systems to detect nuclear missile launches   
   and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles,” prosecutors said.   
      
   He also stole “blueprints for sensors designed to enable U.S. military   
   aircraft to detect incoming heat-seeking missiles and take   
   countermeasures, including by jamming the missiles’ infrared tracking   
   ability,” prosecutors said.   
      
   The Los Angeles-area company and U.S. government spent tens of millions of   
   dollars annually for more than seven years to develop the technologies,   
   federal officials said.   
      
   He was hired by the company to work in one of its laboratories in January   
   2023, began copying files in March and was fired in April, officials said.   
      
   The man, who was born in China but became a U.S. citizen in 2011, has in   
   the past “sought to provide the People’s Republic of China with   
   information to aid its military,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said in the   
   release.   
      
   He is charged with theft of trade secrets, prosecutors said.   
      
   Attorney information for the man was not made available.   
      
   If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in federal prison.   
      
   https://news.yahoo.com/engineer-steals-us-nuclear-secrets-203013465.html   
      
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