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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973544303321

Titolo

Research required to support comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty monitoring / / Panel on Basic Research Requirements in Support of Comprehensive Test Ban Monitoring, Committee on Seismology, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, c1997

ISBN

9786610191567

9780309174503

0309174503

9781280191565

1280191562

9780309590792

0309590795

9780585027852

0585027854

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 p.)

Disciplina

327.1/747

Soggetti

Nuclear weapons - Testing - Detection - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-100).

Sommario/riassunto

On September 24, 1996, President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty at the United Nations Headquarters. Over the next five months, 141 nations, including the four other nuclear weapon states -- Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom -- added their signatures to this total ban on nuclear explosions. To help achieve verification of compliance with its provisions, the treaty specifies an extensive International Monitoring System of seismic, hydroacoustic, infrasonic, and radionuclide sensors. This volume identifies specific research activities that will be needed if the United States is to effectively monitor compliance with the treaty provisions.