2015-06-27 15:29:00

Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization holds Vienna meeting


The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), which is the international body that monitors nuclear explosions, on Friday concluded a week-long meeting in Vienna.

The organisation relies on hundreds of seismic, hydroacoustic and radionuclide stations around the world to uncover evidence of possible nuclear tests.

The Director of the Organization’s International Data Centre, Randy Bell, told Vatican Radio the organization is trying to get more nations up-to-speed on being able to detect nuclear explosions.

Listen to the interview by Marie Duhamel with Randy Bell: 

“It is an ongoing process, but every year the number of member states who have effective national data centres grows and grows,” he said.

Bell explained the CTBTO hold an annual national data centre preparedness exercise to help train technical staff.

“One member-state will build a scenario and provide mock data, and other member-states will use that mock data and analyse it, and then they will all come together to discuss and deliberate on what was the underlying event which sparked the scenario,” he said, calling the exercises “complex and very challenging.”

 “Our goal is to make that all the member-states can effectively take part in these, so that the advanced member-states are helping the new and developing member-states enhance their capability [and] improve their confidence, so that all member-states can support their foreign affairs, their ministers, their diplomats that would take part in any deliberations in the future.”








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