Sentences with phrase «underground weapons testing»

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NIF has three purposes: To further our basic understanding of stars, to determine how the United States» aging nuclear weapons are holding up without engaging in underground testing, and to explore the enormous potential of nuclear fusion power plants.

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.

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation, which watches out for nuclear weapons tests worldwide, looked at its data for the last few days to see if its infrasound — below the range of human hearing — recordings, normally used to seek out the muffled crump of underground tests, contained any signature of an aircraft explosion.

Since 1996, 183 nations have signed the Comprehensive Nuclear - Test - Ban Treaty, which prohibits underground testing of nuclear weapons.

The CTBT would prohibit the U.S. and every other signatory from conducting test explosions, no matter how small, of nuclear weapons underground, in space or anywhere else.