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Appendix B: Research Support History
Pages 103-106

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... Efforts to achieve those goals, driven to ever more demanding levels by ensuing nuclear testing treaties, have continued to the present, although the formal involvement of ARPA in the research effort terminated with a DoD restructuring in 1996. There were substantial research and development programs in multiple disciplines from 1959 on, including deployment of VELA satellites and research on On-Site Inspection, tunneling technology, and other areas.
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From page 104...
... This program bolstered university involvement in CTBT-relevant research, which had diminished significantly as ARPA focused effort on systems development. Research activities conducted by universities under the AFOSR program included research on regional distance seismograms; elastic and anelastic structure in Eurasia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America; characteristics of Lg propagation; basic wave propagation theory for calculation of regional high-frequency phases; source radiation effects in anisotropic media; three-component waveform analysis; and numerous other topics relevant to CTBT research.
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From page 105...
... 105 Beginning with FY 1997, the entire AFOSR, AFPL, and ARPA budgets for CTBT monitoring were consolidated under the newly created Nuclear Treaty Program Office (NTPO) with a FY 1997 budget of $29.1 million, with $8.8 million intended for a peer-reviewed external CTBT monitoring research program ($7.1 million specifically for research in seismology and $1.7 million for research in other disciplines such as hydroacoustics, infrasonics, and radionuclides)
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