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This article focuses on the failure of the U.S. government to safeguard the information about its nuclear project at the Los Alamo National Laboratory in 2000. Reports from inside the Department of Energy (DOE) indicate that management has interfered in security self-assessments at the agency's facilities and has permitted sales of computer systems that contain classified information to China. The first indications that the Chinese had penetrated into DOE nuclear-weapons laboratories came in 1995. The U.S. administration's response to the success of Chinese infiltration was to undermine the credibility of the counterintelligence warnings of Chinese espionage.

Clarifies issues related to the unauthorized possession and publication of U.S. classified defense information in "The New York Times" in 1971. Threat posed by the publication of the classified information to U.S. national security; Exaggeration of the indignation about hiding the truth from U.S. citizens; Implication of the publication of the classified information for the presidency of President Richard Nixon.