Political Seismology or Seismological Politics: Natural Resources Defense Council-USSR Experiments in Underground Nuclear Test Verification

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Research Article| February 11, 2015 Political Seismology or Seismological Politics: Natural Resources Defense Council–USSR Experiments in Underground Nuclear Test Verification Anna Amramina Anna Amramina Institute of Physics of the Earth, 10 Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street, Moscow 123995, Russian Federationamramina@ifz.ru Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Anna Amramina Institute of Physics of the Earth, 10 Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street, Moscow 123995, Russian Federationamramina@ifz.ru Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 14 Jul 2017 Online ISSN: 1938-2057 Print ISSN: 0895-0695 © 2015 by the Seismological Society of America Seismological Research Letters (2015) 86 (2A): 451–457. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220140183 Article history First Online: 14 Jul 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Anna Amramina; Political Seismology or Seismological Politics: Natural Resources Defense Council–USSR Experiments in Underground Nuclear Test Verification. Seismological Research Letters 2015;; 86 (2A): 451–457. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220140183 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search In the 1980s, the Institute of Physics of the Earth (IPE) in Moscow was challenged by the Soviet Academy of Sciences with an ambitious task to become the Soviet representative in an unprecedented joint project with the United States of America in a defense‐sensitive area. In 1986–1988, a series of experiments was held on two major nuclear test sites, in Nevada in the United States and Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, to prove the scientific possibility of verifying the exact location and yield of underground nuclear explosions. The story hardly sounds sensational; however, there are reasons to believe that it stands out... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.

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