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Satellite images reveal that China is making hundreds of upgrades and expansions to Lop Nur — a military base in a remote desert in the Xinjiang region — where the country first detonated an atomic bomb nearly 60 years ago. The upgrades include a deep vertical shaft that would support larger atomic tests — the strongest evidence yet that Beijing is weighing dry runs for a new generation of nuclear arms.
Analysts warned that the activity at Lop Nur signals a wide modernization of China’s nuclear establishment that could speed arms buildups and spark a new age of atomic rivalry.
Credit: The New York Times