Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Anton M. Dainty

ISBN 10: 9401041873 / ISBN 13: 9789401041874

Published by Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands, 2013

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - An international treaty banning the testing of any nuclear device in any environment - a comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT) - has been on the political agenda for nearly 40 years. Objections to a CTBT have been political, technical, or a combination of both. However, the possibilities seem better after the end of the Cold War. In the prevailing, cooperative disarmament climate a CTBT appears likely to be approved by most countries in 1996. Hence the great current interest in monitoring technologies and capabilities. Such issues are comprehensively addressed here, a preamble being devoted to the political developments and setbacks over the past 40 years. Since seismic means are considered the dominant monitoring element, they are explored in detail. Contributions cover network deployments, advanced signal processing, wave propagation in heterogeneous media, and seismic source representations, and a variety of techniques for source classification (including neuralnetworks). Complementary monitoring techniques, such as hydroacoustics, radionuclides and infrasound, are also summarised. The IAEA operation for monitoring compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty is also presented. The book also includes eyewitness accounts of the Soviet 50 Mt megabomb development and test, as well as the efforts made by the state to monitor the nuclear test programmes of the western powers. Includes some 33 articles written by distinguished scientists active in CTBT monitoring research for decades.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401041873
• ISBN 13: 9789401041874
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 160H x 49D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 49 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1419 grams

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Synopsis

An international treaty banning the testing of any nuclear device in any environment - a comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT) - has been on the political agenda for nearly 40 years. Objections to a CTBT have been political, technical, or a combination of both. However, the possibilities seem better after the end of the Cold War. In the prevailing, cooperative disarmament climate a CTBT appears likely to be approved by most countries in 1996. Hence the great current interest in monitoring technologies and capabilities.
Such issues are comprehensively addressed here, a preamble being devoted to the political developments and setbacks over the past 40 years. Since seismic means are considered the dominant monitoring element, they are explored in detail. Contributions cover network deployments, advanced signal processing, wave propagation in heterogeneous media, and seismic source representations, and a variety of techniques for source classification (including neuralnetworks). Complementary monitoring techniques, such as hydroacoustics, radionuclides and infrasound, are also summarised. The IAEA operation for monitoring compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty is also presented.
The book also includes eyewitness accounts of the Soviet 50 Mt megabomb development and test, as well as the efforts made by the state to monitor the nuclear test programmes of the western powers. Includes some 33 articles written by distinguished scientists active in CTBT monitoring research for decades.

Review

`I recommend this publication to anyone desiring to learn about the various scientific and technical aspects of nuclear disarmament, and also to seismologists (and others) who are specialists in a given field and seek to obtain the latest knowledge and know about currently discussed issues linked with seismic source description, seismic networks or seismic data processing.'
Pageoph, 147:4 (1996)