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China Quietly Rebuilds Secretive Base for Nuclear Tests (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/worldnews

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For years, U.S. government reports and independent experts have expressed vague concerns about the old base, Lop Nur. The reports point to possible preparations for year-round operations and a “lack of transparency.”

Now, however, waves of satellite images reveal that the military base has newly drilled boreholes — ideal for bottling up firestorms of deadly radiation from large nuclear blasts — as well as hundreds of other upgrades and expansions.

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[–] venoft -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, how many of these kind of sites do you think the US has? Maybe we should express vague concern about those too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One - the Nevada Test Site. There's a monthly tour of it from Las Vegas.

The US has shifted non-detonation nuclear stockpile verification, and hasn't set one off since the 1992.