...Testifying before the United States-China Commission in 2002, Bronson stated that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is “already one of the few countries that can threaten the continental United States.” She went on to elaborate by noting China’s poor record on proliferation; its current and growing inventory of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; its “incomplete and inaccurate declarations” regarding biological weapons; its failure to acknowledge “the full extent of its chemical weapons program” even though it had ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention; and its attention to developing small nuclear boosters “able to launch satellites at a moment’s notice in a contingency,” just for starters....