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  • Peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) are nuclear explosions conducted for non-military purposes. Proposed uses include excavation for the building of canals...
    48 KB (5,164 words) - 02:42, 3 April 2024
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    comprises: 170 seismic monitoring stations (50 primary + 120 auxiliary)** The seismic monitoring system monitors for underground nuclear explosions. These stations...
    38 KB (3,736 words) - 21:58, 23 May 2024
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    International Monitoring System (IMS) consists of a network of 321 monitoring stations, and 16 radionuclide laboratories. Fifty "primary" seismic stations...
    34 KB (3,730 words) - 06:54, 11 April 2024
  • entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, a Convention that outlaws nuclear test explosions. Its seat will be in Vienna, Austria....
    8 KB (933 words) - 08:29, 2 January 2024
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    Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty to ban nuclear weapons test explosions and any other nuclear explosions, for both civilian...
    49 KB (3,966 words) - 08:45, 6 June 2024
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    equipment are affected when subjected to nuclear explosions. However, nuclear testing has often been used as an indicator of scientific and military strength...
    64 KB (5,445 words) - 21:17, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2015 Tianjin explosions
    explosions continued to burn uncontrolled throughout the weekend, resulting in eight additional explosions on 15 August. The cause of the explosions was...
    74 KB (6,424 words) - 18:40, 21 March 2024
  • Ban treaty of 1963 (PTBT) and the Treaty of Tlatelolco. There are many different ways to detect a nuclear detonation, these include seismic, hydroacoustic...
    18 KB (2,116 words) - 22:33, 19 April 2024
  • injection. Nuclear explosions can cause seismic activity, but according to USGS, the resulting seismic activity is less energetic than the original nuclear blast...
    81 KB (8,869 words) - 12:30, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2017 North Korean nuclear test
    independent seismic monitoring agency NORSAR estimated that the blast had a yield of about 120 kilotons, based on a seismic magnitude of 5.8. On 4 September...
    31 KB (2,682 words) - 04:25, 16 April 2024
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    facilities. Underwater explosions differ from in-air explosions due to the properties of water: Mass and incompressibility (all explosions) – water has a much...
    25 KB (2,818 words) - 13:46, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2020 Beirut explosion
    seismic event of magnitude 3.3 and is considered one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions on record. It was powerful enough to affect Earth's ionosphere...
    208 KB (15,753 words) - 21:39, 17 June 2024
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    Tsunami (redirect from Seismic sea wave)
    displacements of very large volumes of water which do not occur in explosions. Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes, landslides, volcanic explosions, glacier...
    63 KB (7,365 words) - 12:01, 10 June 2024
  • the classification of nuclear explosions, was an ultra-high-power low-air nuclear explosion. The flare was visible at a distance of more than 1,000 km...
    62 KB (7,233 words) - 00:00, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2006 North Korean nuclear test
    it was a nuclear explosion. Radioactive isotopes of the element xenon are produced by the atom splitting that takes place in nuclear explosions and readily...
    42 KB (4,331 words) - 05:49, 3 May 2024
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    using seismic data found evidence for nuclear testing but a 2016 study once again dismissed claims of nuclear testing, suggesting that the seismic data...
    167 KB (16,238 words) - 18:43, 10 June 2024
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    to monitoring nuclear treaty compliance Boeing WC-135 Constant Phoenix – US aircraft used to detect nuclear explosions National technical means of verification...
    127 KB (16,011 words) - 22:05, 15 May 2024
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    476 nuclear devices. As of 1993, worldwide, 520 atmospheric nuclear explosions (including 8 underwater) have been conducted with a total yield of 545...
    68 KB (6,613 words) - 02:27, 26 June 2024
  • 2017. "BGR registers a presumed nuclear test in North Korea". "Seismic Detective Weighs In on North Korea's Latest Nuclear Test". 5 September 2017. Buckley...
    26 KB (1,264 words) - 20:44, 3 March 2024
  • crisis. Then it would begin monitoring a network of seismic, radiation, and air pressure sensors for signs of nuclear explosions. Before launching any retaliatory...
    26 KB (2,945 words) - 03:53, 12 June 2024
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