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2026-01-05 China-Japan-Koreas
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INVESTIGATION: Stanford Earth Sciences Chair Collaborates with China's Nuclear Program
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[StanfordReview] Wendy Mao, Stanford’s Earth Sciences Chair and Deputy Director of Stanford’s Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences at SLAC, has co-authored over 50 publications, trained five employees, and maintained a visiting scholar position at HPSTAR, an “alias” for China's nuclear weapons program.
| …all of which was not just fine but considered admirable in the olden days before Donald Trump was sworn in…. |
In 2020, the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology, or HPSTAR, was added to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Entity List, which identifies organizations that pose a significant risk to national security. Since its 2020 Entity List designation, Professor Mao has co-authored at least 12 peer-reviewed papers with HPSTAR.
The U.S. Entity List describes HPSTAR as an organization “owned by, operated by, or directly affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), which is the technology complex responsible for the research, development and testing of China's nuclear weapons and has been on the Entity List under the destination of China since June 30, 1997.”
According to Canada's 2024 Named Research Organizations List, HPSTAR is an “alias” for the institution behind China’s nuclear weapons program.
HPSTAR studies how materials behave under extreme pressures and temperatures using diamond-anvil cells, synchrotron beams, and X-ray diffraction. Mao is a leading U.S. researcher in this very field.
In an interview with the Stanford Review, Professor Raymond Jeanloz, a UC Berkeley high-pressure materials researcher and former chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control, stated:
"It is true that high-pressure experiments are used by scientists working on the domain of nuclear weapons. If anyone is using the diamond anvil cell or shock waves to study materials relevant to nuclear weapons, that's highly sensitive. If those same methods are then applied to sensitive nuclear materials, the combination of these kinds of experiments with these materials starts raising eyebrows."
Both Mao and HPSTAR extensively use diamond anvil cells and shock waves to study materials.
Over the past two decades, Mao has co-authored at least 50 publications with HPSTAR. Funding acknowledgments show that Wendy Mao and HPSTAR co-authored research financed by the following U.S. government agencies:
- Department of Energy (including the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA)
- Department of Defense (DOD)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Army Research Office (ARO)
- National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA)
There’s been a lot of that going on, as we discovered with the Covid research. It sounds like the Deputy Director is being put forward as an awful example of how such things are punished. TRAINED HPSTAR PHD STUDENTS
Mao has trained at least five HPSTAR employees as PhD students in her Stanford and SLAC labs. At least one HPSTAR postdoctoral researcher simultaneously worked on DOE, NNSA, and DARPA-funded research at SLAC.
For example, one of Mao’s current PhD students worked at HPSTAR for three years, from 2015 to 2018, receiving an M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics before joining Stanford as a PhD student in Mao’s lab.
The other four were trained in Mao’s lab and returned to China to work at HPSTAR. These are only the individuals we were able to identify via web and archival searches.
In an interview with the Review, a high-ranking Trump 45 official with knowledge of the matter stated, “Mao has trained 5 PhD students affiliated with China’s nuclear weapons program. Stanford should not permit its federally funded research labs to become training grounds for entities affiliated with China’s nuclear program. Mao’s continued and extensive academic collaboration with HPSTAR is adequate grounds for termination.”
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