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The Verification of a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban

Networks of seismic instruments could monitor a total test ban with high reliability. Even small clandestine explosions could be identified even If extreme measures were taken to evade detection

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Lynn R. Sykes is Higgins Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 247 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “The Verification of a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 247 No. 4 (), p. 47
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1082-47