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Author:   Lynn R. Sykes
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9780231182485

ISBN 10:   0231182481
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   12 December 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Hurried Trip to Moscow in 1974 to Negotiate the Threshold Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 2. Development and Testing of Nuclear Weapons 3. From the Early Negotiations to Halt Nuclear Testing to the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 4. Attempts to Hide Nuclear Tests: The Big-Hole Evasion Scheme 5. U.S. Overestimation of Sizes of Soviet Underground Explosions: 1961-1974 6. New Methods to Identify Underground Tests: 1963-1973 7. Congressional Hearings on a Comprehensive Test Ban 8. Peaceful Nuclear Explosions 9. Heated Controversies Over Yields of Soviet Tests and an Unsuccessful Attempt at a CTBT 10. Continued Debate About Yields, Accusations of Soviet Cheating on the Threshold Treaty, and Its Entry Into Force 11. Renewed Interest in a CTBT, the OTA Report, and the Group of Scientific Experts: 1979-1996 12. Dealing with Problem or Anomalous Events in the USSR and Russian Republic: 1972-2009 13. Negotiating the Comprehensive Test Ban: Global Monitoring, 1993-2016 14. Monitoring Nuclear Tests Sites and Countries of Special Concern to the United States 15. Senate Rejection of the CTBT in 1999 16. The CTBT Task Force and the 2002 and 2012 Reports of the National Academies 17. Strategic Nuclear Weapons: Soviet and U.S. Parity 18. Nuclear War, False Alarms, Accidents, Arms Control, and Ways Forward Glossary and Abbreviations References Index

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Lynn R. Sykes has a long record of using seismology to study the important question of how to differentiate nuclear explosions from earthquakes. That experience makes him uniquely qualified to present this cautionary tale about the sclerotic process by which well-founded scientific insight filters its way into the politically loaded formulation of national policy-particularly defense policy. -- Daniel Davis, Stony Brook University

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Lynn R. Sykes is Higgins Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

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