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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.
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.