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Executive Summary
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... Analysis of these data, using state-of-the-art scientific and technical expertise across a wide range of disciplines will play a critical role in the immediate effort to monitor and verify the comprehensive ban on nuclear explosions. To sustain and advance these CTBT monitoring capabilities, there is a need for a strong basic research effort to support improved analysis of IMS and National Technical Means (NIM)
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... To help shape a national research effort in these areas, the report also describes current research programs that support nuclear monitoring, and it recommends strategies to increase their effectiveness and stability. Monitoring CTBT compliance will be more challenging than prior nuclear testing treaties because it will require high confidence identification of any nuclear explosions in the atmosphere, underwater, underground or in space amidst a significant background of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, storms, meteor impacts, and conventional explosions such as mining blasts.
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... Thus, the primary research issues associated with CTBT monitoring involve first-order questions regarding the characterization, understanding, and reduction of background noise 3 phenomena. To this end, prioritized research activities include.
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... DATA ACCESS The panel strongly recommends that scientific researchers have near real-time access to the IMS data streams received by the U.S. National Data Center (NDC)
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... Much of this report discusses basic research in seismology, hydroacoustics, infrasound, and radionuclide monitoring needed to support enhanced CTBT monitoring. In Chapter 1, the panel frames these issues with a discussion of the technical challenges associated with monitoring the CTBT, the importance of the Presidential safeguards for monitoring, and the role of the IMS and basic research in achieving these goals.


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