Over 160 scientists from a top US nuclear lab have been poached over a period of 34 years to help China develop their hypersonic missiles programme, according to a report.
The study carried out by private intelligence firm, Strider Technologies, found that between 1987 and as recent as last year, 162 Chinese scientists who worked at the top secret Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the atom bomb was made, returned to their homeland.
This was to work on "domestic research and development programmes", most notably 'world-ending warheads, drones, camouflage and submarines,' reported by the study.
