Sentences with phrase «clandestine nuclear tests»

IN VIENNA, Austria, scientists are listening for clandestine nuclear tests.

Researchers used data from sensors designed to detect clandestine nuclear tests, among other sources, to identify airbursts with an energy equivalent to or larger than that released by 1 kiloton of exploding TNT.

Forensic seismologists work to distinguish a natural earthquake from what could be a clandestine nuclear test.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Even when they're underground, nuclear tests can be detected in the skies — and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful new tool in the arsenal of weapons to help detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions, a team of scientists reported here today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

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Austrian researchers have used a worldwide network of radiation detectors — designed to spot clandestine nuclear bomb tests — to show that iodine - 131 is being released at daily levels 73 per cent of those seen after the 1986 disaster.

The Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has spawned a globe - girdling network of 300 detector stations that sniff out radionuclides, listen for low - frequency sounds, and record tremors — all to discern whether countries are carrying out clandestine nuclear weaponsNuclear - Test - Ban Treaty (CTBT) has spawned a globe - girdling network of 300 detector stations that sniff out radionuclides, listen for low - frequency sounds, and record tremors — all to discern whether countries are carrying out clandestine nuclear weaponsnuclear weapons tests.

The unlikely source of much of the recent information comes from data sent back to earth by a small satellite designed to detect clandestine nuclear weapons tests.