Lop Nur
English
Alternative forms
- Lop Nor
Etymology
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Proper noun
Lop Nur
- A former salt lake, now largely dried up, located in southeastern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China.
- [1983, Shen, James C. H., “Rejoining the Government”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, LCCN 82-13884, OCLC 8708915, page 39:
- Kennedy at the time was greatly concerned over reports that the Chinese Communists were secretly conducting nuclear explosions at Lop Nor in Northwest China—a sure indication they were working on atomic weapons. This was the period when Moscow and Peking were still close to each other, otherwise it might have been possible for the United States to devise a way to neutralize Peking's nuclear potential at an early stage. At their meeting Kennedy asked Chen many questions about Lop Nor. Could he have been thinking of a preventive surgical strike?]
- 1998, Hare, John, The Lost Camels of Tartary: A Quest Into Forbidden China, Abacus, →ISBN, OCLC 41960689, OL 9421196M, page 4:
- I've taken camels over the forbidding Kum Tagh sand dunes and crossed the 200-kilometre-long dried-up lake-bed of Lop Nur.
- 2016 [1924], Hermann Wieland, Gregory Klanderud, transl., Atlantis, Edda & Bible, Hermitage Helm, →ISBN, OCLC 991596052, page 203:
- It also seems apparent that he fought with the Red tribes against Germany. His symbol was found by Sven Hedin even as far away as in Lop Nur in China (see Figs. 45-48).
- 2015 May, Damian Harper, et al., China (Lonely Planet), →ISBN, OCLC 903187869, page 982:
- Many visitors to Xīnjiāng will experience this huge expanse during their travels or can arrange camel-trekking tours and expeditions through its vast sand dunes. China’s biggest shifting salt lake, Lop Nur (the site of China’s nuclear bomb tests) is also here.
- 2020 April 15, Landay, Jonathan, “China may have conducted low-level nuclear test blasts, U.S. says”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 16 April 2020, World News:
- 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, the State Department report said.
Zero yield refers to a nuclear test in which there is no explosive chain reaction of the type ignited by the detonation of a nuclear warhead.
“China’s possible preparation to operate its Lop Nur test site year-round, its use of explosive containment chambers, extensive excavation activities at Lop Nur and a lack of transparency on its nuclear testing activities ... raise concerns regarding its adherence to the zero yield standard,” the report said without providing evidence of a low-yield test.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lop Nur.
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Translations
former salt lake in Xinjiang, China
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Further reading
- “Lop Nur”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Anagrams
- lupron