The Defense Department official said the new intelligence assessment and the President's reversal could end up accelerating the Pentagon's program.
We shall have to accelerate our program.
Stolen secrets, it said, "could help" Beijing develop a mobile missile and "probably accelerated its program to develop future nuclear weapons."
I am instructed to accelerate your program, and so a device is being prepared which will give you more complete information-" "Device?
Chinese officials have said they might have to accelerate their own nuclear program if the Americans build an antimissile shield.
Undeterred, El Paso is accelerating its program to restructure old power plant contracts.
This would accelerate our program immeasurably.
The report added that the intelligence community believed Beijing had probably used the information not to copy American warheads but to accelerate its own program.
There were some indications that Iran was accelerating its nuclear program.
Gecas has accelerated its program for converting old airplanes to cargo planes, which require little interior refurbishing.