Lop Nur

English Alternative forms en Lop Nor Etymology From en ug لوپنۇر, from en xwo ᠯᠣ᠊ᠫ ᠨᡇᡇᠷ Lob nuur, from xwo ᠯᠣ᠊ᠫ Lob ᠨᡇᡇᠷ lake 1, where the former is itself of unknown origin from older times, possibly oui -. Compare cmn 羅布淖爾, cmn 羅布泊 Lop Lake. Pronunciation lōb′ nôr′ lôp′ nôr′Lob Nor or Lop Nor 1071 3 Proper noun 1 A largely dried up salt lake, known for being used as a nuclear testing site, located in southeastern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. en 1983 James C. H. Shen Rejoining the Government Robert Myers The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally https://books.google.com/books?id=QGaGAAAAIAAJ Washington, D.C. Acropolis Books Ltd. 0-87491-463-9 82-13884 8708915 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? on en 1998 John Hare The Lost Camels of Tartary: A Quest Into Forbidden China https://archive.org/details/lostcamelsoftart00hare/ Abacus Books Abacus 0-349-11146-4 41960689 9421196M 4 https://archive.org/details/lostcamelsoftart00hare/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. en 2016 1924 Hermann Wieland Gregory Klanderud Atlantis, Edda & Bible https://archive.org/details/aebhw25/ Hermitage Helm 978-0-9873705-9-4 991596052 203 https://archive.org/details/aebhw25/page/n205/ 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). en 2015 May Damian Harper; et al. China https://archive.org/details/china0000unse_i4z5/ w:Lonely Planet 978-1-74321-401-5 903187869 982 https://archive.org/details/china0000unse_i4z5/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. en APRIL 15, 2020 w:Jonathan Landay China may have conducted low-level nuclear test blasts, U.S. says https://web.archive.org/web/20200416052832/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-nuclear-idUSKCN21X386 16 April 2020 w:Reuters 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. en Translations former salt lake in Xinjiang, China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 羅布泊 Luóbù Pō Manchu: mnc ᠯᠣᠪ ᠨᠣᠣᡵ Polish: pl Lob-nor m-in Uyghur: ug لوپنۇر See also en Sogo Nur en Gaxun Nur en Koko Nur en Bayannur en Torot Nur en Dalai Nur References Further reading Paul Pelliot Paul Pelliot Notes on Marco Polo 1963 Paris 2 L’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres et Avec Le Concours Du Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/III-2-F-c-104/V-2/page-hr/0174.html.en 770 Anagrams en lnopru lupron en Lakes Places in China