Probing the earth with nuclear explosions

D. T. Griggs, Frank Press

ResearchPublished 1959

A suggestion that an international program of explosions be initiated for seismic purposes and that it be supported by adequate seismic instrumentation. The study indicates the advantages of using large chemical explosions and future nuclear explosions, detonated under the PLOWSHARE program, as controlled energy sources for these instrumented seismological experiments. The instrumentation network proposed at Geneva for nuclear-test detection is specifically suggested as a possible instrumentation system. Such measures would improve our seismic capability to detect nuclear tests in the event of a test moratorium, and the scientific rewards would be tremendous. 43 pp.

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