Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

I. Principal Political and Technical Test Ban Issues.- Importance of a CTB for the Durability of the NPT.- Three Interesting Episodes in the Soviet Nuclear Program.- Attempts to Ban Nuclear Tests- A Disappointing Story.- Monitoring of Underground Nuclear Tests by Seismic Stations in the Former Soviet Union (FSU).- Seismological Methods for Monitoring a CTBT: The Technical Issues Arising in Early Negotiations.- Russian Experience in Global Seismic Monitoring.- II. Monitoring Technologies.- Monitoring Compliance under Article III of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.- The Department of Energy’s Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Research and Development Program.- The Russian Federation Proposal on the CTBT Global Monitoring System.- Signatures of Testing: On-Site Inspection Technologies.- Atmospheric Methods for Nuclear Test Monitoring.- Airborne Radionuclides of Concern and Their Measurement in Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.- Atmospheric Radionuclide Monitoring: A Swedish Perspective.- Hydroacoustic Surveillance of the Oceans and its Relevance to Monitoring of Seismic Events.- Geophysical and Geological Databases and CTBT Monitoring: A Case Study of the Middle East.- III. Explosion and Earthquake Source Modeling.- Types of Seismic Events and Their Source Descriptions.- Dealing with Decoupled Nuclear Explosions under a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.- Methods of Evading Detection by a Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Network under Special Conditions.- Seismic Source Size and Yield for Nuclear Explosions.- Seismic Results from DOE’s Non-Proliferation Experiment: A Comparison of Chemical and Nuclear Explosions.- Regional Source Parameters, Seismic Energy, and Discrimination.- Seismicity Induced by Mining: An Overview.- IV. Seismic Networks.- Towards a Global Seismic Monitoring System — Lessons Learned from Geneva Experiments.- Generalized Beamforming, Phase Association and Threshold Monitoring using a Global Seismic Network.- Broadband and ArrayObservations at Low Noise Sites in Kazakhstan: Opportunities for Seismic Monitoring of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.- Monitoring Earthquake Activity Offshore Iberia.- Event Location and Source Characterisation.- Structure at the Top and Bottom of the Mantle- Two Examples of Use of Broad-Band Data in Seismic Tomography.- Expanding the Global Seismographic Network.- V. Signal Processing and Seismic Wave Propagation.- Algorithms for Adaptive Statistical Processing of Seismic Array Data.- Retrieving Signals from Array Data.- Trinity or Verity?.- Array Processing by Phase Regression.- Attenuation and Blockage of Lg in Eurasia.- Lg Wave Attenuation and Propagation Characteristics in Iran.- The Influence of Seismic Scattering on Monitoring.- VI. Seismic Source Discrimination Technologies.- Regional Seismic Event Discrimination.- Resolving Regional Discrimination Problems: Some Case Histories.- Extracting and Processing Signal Parameters for Regional Seismic Event Identification.- A Reviewof Broadband Regional Discrimination Studies of NTS Explosions and Western U.S. Earthquakes.- Neural Networks in Seismic Discrimination.- Statistical Approaches to Seismic Discrimination.- Seismic Source Discrimination at Teleseismic Distances—Can We Do Better?.