Sixty years ago, in the remote Lop Nur desert in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China successfully detonated its first atomic bomb, code-named “Miss Qiu”. The test, on October 16 ...

This development comes amidst heightened scrutiny of Chinese military activities in the region, including another facility near the former Lop Nur salt lake in China's Xinjiang region, dubbed by ...

Their "eyes" are also turned towards a facility under construction on the site of the former salt lake Lop Nur in the southeastern part of the Xinjiang region in China, where nuclear tests were ...

U.S. concerns about Beijing’s possible breaches of a “zero yield” standard for test blasts have been prompted by activities at China’s Lop Nur nuclear test site throughout 2019 ...