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'''North West Nuclear Weapons Research and Design Academy''' also known as the '''Ninth Academy''' and '''Koko Nor Complex''' was established by the Ninth Bureau of the [[Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China]] in [[Amdo]], [[Qinghai]], Tibet, China in 1958. For nearly twenty years, the facility was responsible for the production of China's nuclear weapons.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Northwest Nuclear Weapons Research and Design Academy |url=https://www.nti.org/learn/facilities/705/|access-date=2020-09-26|website=www.nti.org}}</ref>{{Sfn|Mehrotra|2000|p=35}}{{Sfn|Lewis|Xue|1991|p=140–143}}
== Nuclearization of Tibet ==
In 1993, China has been accused of "nuclear-weapons research on the Tibetan plateau and dumping radioactive waste there".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wudunn|first=Sheryl|date=1993-04-19|title=NUCLEAR DUMP SITE REPORTED IN TIBET (Published 1993)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/19/world/nuclear-dump-site-reported-in-tibet.html|access-date=2020-10-14|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== References ==
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=== Bibliography ===
* {{Cite book|last=Mehrotra|first=LL|url=https://tibet.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Inidas-Tibet-Policy.pdf|title=India's Tibet Policy: An Appraisal and Options|publisher=Tibetan Parliamentary and Policy Research Centre, New Delhi.|year=2000|isbn=|edition=Third|location=New Delhi|pages=}}
* {{Cite book|last1=Lewis|first1=John Wilson|last2=Xue|first2=Litai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KNVUy9TEj34C|title=China Builds the Bomb|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=1991|isbn=9780804718417|edition=illustrated|location=California|pages=}}
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