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Seismic methods for verifying test ban treaties

Conference · · AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6468395
Seismic monitoring of underground nuclear explosions, for purposes of treaty verification, is a process that entails three separate steps: event detection, explosion identification, and yield estimation. For the 150 kiloton yield threshold treaties now in effect, the first two steps are easy. The third has been remarkably contentious and is the subject of new US--USSR negotiations, begun in November 1987, that have the potential both to resolve questions of Soviet non-compliance with current test ban treaties, and to give credibility to seismic methods of yield estimation that have relevance for veryifying further restrictions on nuclear testing, for example a low yield threshold test ban.
Research Organization:
Department of Geological Sciences, Columbia University, and Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Palisades, NY 10964
OSTI ID:
6468395
Report Number(s):
CONF-8804202-
Conference Information:
Journal Name: AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 178:1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English