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China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.
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DF-31
Chinese ICBM
The Dong Feng 31 is a third-generation long-range, road-mobile, three stage, solid-fuel rocket intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the Dongfeng missile series developed by the People's Republic of China. It is designed to carry a single 1-megaton thermonuclear weapon.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Lop Nur
Former salt lake in Bayingolin Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
Lop Nur or Lop Nor is a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the Lop Depression in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, northwestern China, between the Taklamakan and Kumtag deserts.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Cox Report
1999 report on Chinese covert operations in the United States in the 1980s and 90s
The Report of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China, commonly known as the Cox Report after Representative Christopher Cox, is a classified U.S. government document reporting on the People's Republic…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)