Russia to add to nuclear test monitoring system

Russia will build 32 facilities to add to the World nuclear test monitoring system, the one that spots nuclear blasts that are banned by the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Almost all new stations are being built on the basis of Russia’s Special Control Service infrastructure.

The service has registered over 730 nuclear tests since it was set up, including blasts on testing grounds in the United States, China, France, India and Pakistan, and also small-yield nuclear device explosions in North Korea in 2006 and 2009.