An Overview of Seismic Discrimination Issues Relevant to CTBT Monitoring,
Abstract
The Conference on Disarmament of the U.N. General Assembly is currently working to draft a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) which will prohibit all nuclear testing. Because seismology remains as the primary monitoring technique for verifying treaty compliance with respect to underground nuclear tests, it is appropriate at this time to once again review the current state of understanding regarding the seismic identification of such explosions. It is evident that no practical seismic monitoring system will ever insure identification of all conceivable underground nuclear tests and, therefore, it is important to begin any such assessment of capability by recognizing that it is first necessary to establish a monitoring threshold goal, which will ultimately represent some compromise between system cost and various political and military considerations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 14, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADP204414
Entities
People
- J. R. Murphy