"A remarkable achievement -- the result of a 20 year-long effort" A listening post in Antarctica-- the last of 21 Australian monitoring facilities -- has been certified to become part of an active ...

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization, or CTBTO, operates the stations to check that countries aren't testing nuclear weapons as part of a 1990s pact. Four of these stations based ...

17 infrasound stations in the CTBTO’s network detected the infrasonic waves from the meteor that broke up over Russia’s Ural mountains. Infrasonic waves from the meteor that broke up over ...

It tells the history of nuclear testing and explains the work of the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), a UN treaty which bans nuclear tests. This 3D ...

It’s Wednesday, September 17, and more than two weeks have elapsed since the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) began its mock inspection exercise in Kazakhstan. A quick refresher on ...

A listening post in Antarctica-- the last of 21 Australian monitoring facilities -- has been certified to become part of an active system girdling the planet to detect nuclear weapon tests.