In other words, to share our technology with them so they don’t have to use spies to get it.
It seems to this clueless-layman that if we resorted to a nuclear explosion in an attempt to divert an asteroid, the detonation would need to be as far away from earth as possible. Even then, we we might still have a potentially destructive meteor shower raining down on us from the fragments — fragments of all sizes — with the added bonus that it would now be highly radioactive.
Maybe I’m wrong and they have it all figured out. I mean, with the 0bama administration meddling in the effort for political reasons, what could we possibly have to worry about?
What do they know that we do not?