«Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.» This quote from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, was often cited by Robert Oppenheimer after the first successful nuclear weapons test. Over the span of the nuclear arms race, the world has grappled with the catastrophic aftermath of atomic explosions. Today, more than 300 detection stations globally operate under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Employing seismic, radionuclide, hydroacoustic, and infrasound technologies, these stations capture echoes of nuclear tests anywhere on Earth. How do these stations operate? Where are they located, and whose responsibility is it to monitor nuclear explosions?
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Nuclear Watchdogs
