"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 final station in a network of 21 Australian nuclear test monitoring facilities, "IS03", at Davis Base, Antarctica, was recently certified. To mark capping a 20 year programme, there will be a ...

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 ...

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.