China nuclear test site

Lop Nor is China’s only nuclear weapons test site, conducts nuclear weapons training and may be a major nuclear weapons stockpile location.[1] The Lop Nor test site covers 100,000 square kilometers, making it the largest in the world by a factor of almost twenty.[2] Approximately 20,000 square kilometers have been used for nuclear testing purposes, with such a large size attributed to the full spectrum of nuclear tests conducted at this single location.