Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

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Preface. List of contributors. Part I: Principal political and technical test ban issues. Importance of a CTB for the durability of the NPT J. Goldblat. Three interesting episodes in the Soviet nuclear program Y.N. Smirnov. Attempts to ban nuclear tests - a disappointing story J. Ruina. Monitoring of underground nuclear tests by seismic stations in the former Soviet Union (FSU) V.V. Adushkin. Seismological methods for monitoring a CTBT: the technical issues arising in early negotiations P.G. Richards, J. Avales. Russian experience in global seismic monitoring Y.V. Cherepanov. Part II: Monitoring technologies. Monitoring compliance under Article III of the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons D.E. Rundquist. The department of energy's comprehensive test ban treaty research and development program D. Simons, et al. The Russian federation proposal on the CTBT global monitoring system Y.F. Zabaluev. Signatures of testing: on-site inspection technologies J. Zucca, et al. Atmospheric methods for nuclear test monitoring D.J. Simons. Airborne radionuclides of concern and their measurement in monitoring a comprehensive test ban treaty R.W. Perkins, et al. Atmospheric radionuclide monitoring: a Swedish perspective L.-E. de Geer. Hydroacoustic surveillance of the oceans and its relevance to monitoring of seismic events J. Johnsen. Geophysical and geological databases and CTBT monitoring: a case study of the Middle East M. Barazangi, et al. Part III: Explosion and earthquake source modeling. Types of seismic events and their source descriptions J.R. Murphy. Dealing with decoupled nuclear explosions under a comprehensive test ban treaty L.R. Sykes. Methods of evading detection by a nuclear explosion monitoring network under special conditions A.A. Spivak. Seismic source size and yield for nuclear explosions A. Douglas, P.D. Marshall. Seismic results from DOE's non-proliferation experiment: a comparison of chemical and nuclear explosions M. Denny, et al. Regional source parameters, seismic energy, and discrimination D.V. Helmberger, B. Woods. Seismicity induced by mining: an overview S.J. Gibowicz. Part IV: Seismic networks. Towards a global seismic monitoring system -- lessons learned from Geneva experiments H.-P. Harjes. Generalized beamforming, phase association and threshold monitoring using a global seismic network T. Kvaerna, F. Ringdal. Broadband and array observations at low noise sites in Kazakhstan: Opportunities for seismic monitoring of a comprehensive test ban treaty W.-Y. Kim, et al. Monitoring earthquake activity offshore Iberia L.A. Mendes-Victor, et al. Event location and source characterisation B.L.N. Kennett. Structure at the top and bottom of the mantle -- two examples of use of broad-band data in seismic tomography A.M. Dziewonski, et al. Expanding the global seismographic network D. Simpson, et al. Part V: Signal processing and seismic wave propagation. Algorithms for adaptive statistical processing of seismic array data A.F. Kushnir. Retrieving signals from array data J.F. Bohme. Trinity or Verity? A. Christoffersson, R. Roberts. Array processing by phase regression A. Lindfors, R.G. Roberts. Attenuation and blockage of Lg in Eurasia B.J. Mitchell, et al. Lg wave attenuation and propagation characteristics in Iran J. Wu, et al. The influence of seismic sca