Editing Cox Report (section)

==Reactions==
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===U.S. Government===
The Cox Report's release prompted major [[legislation|legislative]] and [[Administration (government)|administrative]] reforms.  More than two dozen of the Select Committee's recommendations were enacted into law, including the creation of a new [[United States National Nuclear Security Administration|National Nuclear Security Administration]] to take over the nuclear weapons security responsibilities of the [[United States Department of Energy]].  At the same time, no person has ever been [[conviction (law)|convicted]] of providing nuclear information to the PRC, and the one case that was brought in connection to these charges, that of [[Wen Ho Lee]], fell apart.<ref name="WHL">{{cite news|url=http://www.asianweek.com/2000/09/28/wen-ho-lee-to-be-released/|title=Wen Ho Lee to Be Released|author=Sam Chu Lin|publisher=[[AsianWeek]]|date=2000-09-28|accessdate=2009-07-27|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604182655/http://www.asianweek.com/2000/09/28/wen-ho-lee-to-be-released/|archivedate=2011-06-04}}</ref>

In response to the allegations contained in the report, the [[CIA]] appointed retired U.S. Navy Admiral [[David E. Jeremiah]] to review and assess the report's findings. In April 1999, Admiral Jeremiah released a report backing up the Cox Report's main allegation that stolen information had been used to develop or modernize Chinese missiles and/or warheads.<ref name=jeremiah>[http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/dci042199.html "DCI Statement on Damage Assessment"], Central Intelligence Agency, April 21, 1999</ref>

===PRC Government===
The [[Government of the People's Republic of China|Chinese government]] called all allegations "groundless".<ref name=response>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/325633.stm "China rejects nuclear spying charge"], [[BBC]], April 22, 1999</ref>

===Academia===
[[Richard L. Garwin]] remarked that stolen information regarding the W-70 and W-88 warhead would not appear to directly impair U.S. national security since to develop weapons based on this technology would require a massive investment in resources and not be in their best strategic interests with regard to their nuclear program.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.armscontrol.org/act/1999_04-05/rgam99.asp |title=Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Why China Won't Build U.S. Warheads |accessdate=February 7, 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051105021618/http://www.armscontrol.org/act/1999_04-05/rgam99.asp |archivedate=November 5, 2005 }} Richard Garwin, "Why China Won't Build U.S. Warheads, ''Arms Control Today'', April–May 1999.</ref>

An assessment report that was published by Stanford University's  Center for International Security and Cooperation said that the language of the Cox report "was inflammatory and some allegations did not seem to be well supported."<ref>M.M. May, Editor, Alastair Johnston, W.K.H. Panofsky, Marco Di Capua, and Lewis Franklin, [https://web.archive.org/web/20050220000227/http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/10331/cox.pdf ''The Cox Committee Report: An Assessment''], Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), December 1999.</ref>

===Related prosecutions===
Two of the U.S. companies named in the report &ndash; [[Loral Space and Communications|Loral Space and Communications Corp.]] and [[Hughes Electronics|Hughes Electronics Corp.]] &ndash; were later successfully prosecuted by the federal government for violations of U.S. export control law, resulting in the two largest [[Fine (penalty)|fines]] in the history of the [[Arms Export Control Act]].  Loral paid a $14 million fine in 2002,<ref name="loralfine">Mintz, John, [http://www.loralpresscenter.com/inthenews/020109.html "LORAL AND U.S. GOVERNMENT SETTLE 1996 CHINESE LAUNCH MATTER"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621185135/http://www.loralpresscenter.com/inthenews/020109.html|date=2008-06-21}}, ''[[Loral Press Center]]'', Jan. 1, 2003</ref> and Hughes paid a $32 million fine in 2003.<ref name="hugehughesfine">{{Cite web |last=GERTH |first=JEFF |date=March 6, 2003 |title=2 Companies Pay Penalties For Improving China Rockets |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/world/2-companies-pay-penalties-for-improving-china-rockets.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002172240/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/world/2-companies-pay-penalties-for-improving-china-rockets.html |archive-date=October 2, 2009 |access-date=April 24, 2025 |website=www.nytimes.com}}</ref>