One by one, weapons secrets are being squeezed out of Baghdad.

The scientist was arrested and indicted last December on charges that he had illegally downloaded a virtual library of nuclear weapons secrets.

The United States had a monopoly on the bomb, and the law established severe penalties, including life imprisonment, for divulging weapons secrets.

Then computer disks with nuclear weapons secrets disappeared; the laboratory was shut down for several months last year in an effort to find out what went wrong.

For five years he has been a focus of investigations into whether weapons secrets, including some about the sophisticated W-88 warhead, were disclosed to China.

He said it included large amounts of unclassified data mixed in with the weapons secrets.

At the time, there was no clear evidence that Chinese technological leaps were the result of theft of American weapons secrets.

And from now on the order is that everything except weapons secrets and military ops plans gets declassified.

Two computer hard drives - full of weapons secrets - are missing.

Dr. Lee, whose access to weapons secrets was listed as "moderate," had worked on the W-88 computer code.