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Science 25 September 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5385, pp. 1967 - 1968
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5385.1967
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Policy Forum

SEISMOLOGY:
Monitoring Nuclear Tests

Brian Barker, Michael Clark, Peter Davis, Mark Fisk, Michael Hedlin, Hans Israelsson, Vitaly Khalturin, Won-Young Kim, Keith McLaughlin, Charles Meade, John Murphy, Robert North, John Orcutt, Chris Powell, Paul G. Richards, Richard Stead, Jeffry Stevens, Frank Vernon, Terry Wallace

In May 1998, the prototype monitoring systems for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) provided effective and timely reporting on the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests. More detailed analysis of a broad range of imagery and seismic data illustrates evolving capabilities for refining the test site locations and estimating the yields and number of explosions. The results demonstrate that there will be sufficient scientific and technical capabilities to perform global treaty monitoring to very low thresholds once the CTBT monitoring network is fully deployed.

Authors are listed alphabetically. B. Barker, J. Murphy, and J. Stevens are at Maxwell Technologies, Reston, VA 22091, USA. M. Clark, H. Israelsson, K. McLaughlin, R. North, and R. Stead are at the Center for Monitoring Research, Science Application International Corporation, Arlington, VA 22209, USA. P. Davis, M. Hedlin, J. Orcutt, and F. Vernon are at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. M. Fisk is at the Mission Research Corporation, Newington, VA 22122, USA. V. Khalturin, W-Y. Kim, and P. G. Richards are at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA. C. Meade is at RAND Corporation, 1333 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20005, USA. C. Powell is at Autometric, Alexandria, VA 22312, USA. T. Wallace is in the Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85745, USA.

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