Last week in Washington D.C., a selected House committee delivered a 700-page congressional report about China stealing top secret nuclear weapon information from the United States.

Reaction to the report has produced varied results from Iowa State faculty and students.

According to the report, two U.S. satellite companies in the U.S. Department of Energy transferred top secret nuclear weapon missile technology information to China.

The facility was run by the Department of Energy, which is believed to have tried to cover up the incident.

Yong Lee, professor of political science, said the media has blown the issue out of proportion and the Chinese could have gotten the information without stealing it from the United States.

“I think that this is the effect of the media,” Lee said. “Both countries are overexaggerating and should calm down. The tension happened because China is becoming a world power.”

Jonathan Compton, graduate student in English, said he thinks there is no excuse for the U.S. government’s attempt to cover up the espionage.

“I think the government should be more responsible,” he said. “They should have came out with the information when it was discovered.”

Osamu Kobayashi, senior in dairy science, said he thinks there is something more to the issue that has not yet been uncovered.

He said he thinks the United States allowed China to “steal” the information to shift blame from the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in May.

“I think [the espionage] was intentional,” Kobayashi said. “Something happened in the background.”

Nathan Brockman, senior in entomology, said he thinks the government should just forget about it.

“They still have it there, and now there is nothing we can do. They can’t do anything more,” he said. “Eventually, [the issue] will disappear, and everyone will just forget about it.”

Lee agreed there is little that can be done now.

“I really don’t think it is that big of a deal,” he said. “The No. 1 rule from all of this is that information leaks no matter what.”