Engineer accused of stealing secret U.S. government tech used to detect nuclear missile launches

A former engineer was arrested on federal charges alleging he stole trade secret technology that was developed by the U.S. government to detect nuclear missile launches and to track ballistic and hypersonic missiles, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Chenguang Gong, 57, of San Jose, California, was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with theft of trade secrets, the DOJ said in a press release. Gong is a native of China and became a U.S. citizen in 2011, the DOJ said. Gong appeared in court Wednesday and was released on $2.5 million bond with location monitoring and curfew, a spokesperson for…