Abstract

If under a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty a suspicious event can be accurately located, it should be possible to sample possible fission products through an on‐site inspection. Such sampling, focused on analysis of the relative abundance of a few key isotopes, can be used to determine the time of a nuclear explosion to an uncertainty of a few hours or less even if the measurements are made several weeks after the event. The sampling could also reliably distinguish nuclear explosions from a deposit of nuclear waste.

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