US EditionChina Expands Desert Nuke Site Amid New Arms Race
The expansion supports China’s goal to modernize its nuclear forces by 2030 with new infrastructure for underground and low-yield nuclear testing, experts say.
- China is rapidly expanding its nuclear testing complex at Lop Nur, Xinjiang, amid indications that the U.S. might resume nuclear testing after over thirty years.
- Satellite images show significant construction, including new tunnels and test shafts, preparing for possible underground nuclear detonations.
- China maintains a no first-use policy but is suspected of low-yield testing at Lop Nur, raising global scrutiny over its nuclear capabilities.
- Analysts, including Tong Zhao, indicate that Xi Jinping's strategy focuses on managing nuclear escalation and closing the technology gap with the U.S. and Russia.
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China Expands Desert Nuke Site Amid New Arms Race
China is rapidly expanding a secretive nuclear testing complex in its western desert just as President Donald Trump signals the United States may resume nuclear weapons testing for the first time in more than three decades. The developments are stirring new global concern that the world's three largest nuclear powers are edging back toward a Cold War-style nuclear arms race, The Washington Post reported Monday. Satellite images reviewed by indep…
Satellite images reveal how China is rapidly expanding its nuclear test site.
China has been quietly upgrading its nuclear test site. China is rapidly expanding and modernizing its nuclear test site in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the same area where the People's Republic of China conducted its first atomic bomb test in 1964, the US newspaper The Washington Post (WP) reports.
In the face of loud statements from the United States and Russia about nuclear testing, China has secretly and rapidly expanded its old nuclear test site in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where the first nuclear bomb test was conducted in 1964, and the Washington Post (WP) writes about it, citing satellite images and expert conclusions.
After US President Donald Trump announced the resumption of nuclear testing in the United States, Beijing did not respond publicly to his words, but immediately began to expand rapidly in remote deserts the nuclear test site located in the western region of Xinjiang, as shown by satellite imagery. It was here in 1964 that the PRC conducted the first nuclear bomb test, wrote The Washington Post.
China's possible preparation for nuclear testing is taking place against the backdrop of an escalation in relations between Russia and the US.
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