For China, the main transportation focus is the NSR, which runs along the northern coastline of Siberia from Novaya Zemlya to the Bering Strait.

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Russian nuclear test site at Novaya Zemlya.

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Since then, the five acknowledged nuclear-weapons states - Russia, the U.S., France, China and Britain - have conducted more than a thousand tests, from the Australian desert (Britain in the 1950s) and the frozen wastes of Siberia's Novaya Zemlya to subterranean Polynesia, where on Sept. 5 France began its latest series of tests at Mururoa Atoll.

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