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Testing the nuclear test-ban treaty

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A recent earthquake near a former Soviet nuclear test site has tested mechanisms for monitoring the test-ban treaty. Technical systems passed with flying colours, but relevant US agencies could have done better.

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Figure 1: Maps showing the Novaya Zemlya test site, locations and magnitudes of recent earthquakes, the 16 August event and some of the relevant seismographic stations.
Figure 2: Waveforms for a Soviet-era nuclear explosion at the Novaya Zemlya test site (top, 24 October 1990, 1,048 km) and for the 16 August event (bottom, 1,127 km), recorded at the same station, KEV, in northern Finland

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Richards, P., Kim, WY. Testing the nuclear test-ban treaty. Nature 389, 781–782 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/39720

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