CTBTO Invites India to be an Observer at Meetings

  • The executive secretary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) has invited India to be an observer in the CTBT.

Benefits to India as an ‘observer’

  • Being an observer India would gain access to data from the International Monitoring System. This system can detect even small nuclear explosions using seismology, hydro-acoustics, infrasound and radionuclide technology.
  • This quality of data would aid India in earthquake monitoring and other civil and scientific applications like gas exploration.
  • The CTBTO provides monitoring data directly from some of its stations to Tsunami warning institutions in Asia and the Pacific since November 2006 which could be ....
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