Joint Verification Experiment-25 Years Event Photographs
Las Vegas: National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Field Office/National Security Technologies, Office of Public Affairs, 2013. Presumed First thus. DVD-RW. This contains dozens of photographs from the event, in JPG format. There are multiple images in files titled: Day 1, Day 2, Day 2 Part 2, Dinner, Dinner 2, Kearsarge GZ, NSF Group Photo, Steakhouse, and U1a-Jasper. The United States part of the Joint Verification Experiment, carried out in 1988 as the Kearsarge event in Operation Touchstone. Twenty-five years later, before tensions increased between Russia and the United States, a joint commemoration of the event was held at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site (formerly the Nevada Test Site). This DVD contains photographs taken throughout the two day event. The objective of the JVE was to calibrate the seismic yield estimation capability of underground nuclear explosions conducted in both countries. It involved the unprecedented US on-site yield measurement of a Soviet nuclear explosion at its then nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, and the reciprocal Soviet on-site yield measurement of a US nuclear explosion at the Nevada Test Site. JVE provided the first opportunity for scientists from US and Soviet nuclear weapons laboratories to meet and work cooperatively. At the Nevada Test Site and at the follow-on experiment at the Soviet Semipalatinsk Test Site they developed confidence-building steps that made possible the ratification of the TTBT in 1990. Both Russians and Americans agree that cooperation between US and Soviet nuclear weapons scientists began with the JVE and the follow-on discussions on the TTBT verification mechanisms during the Geneva negotiations. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Nuclear Weapons, Weapons Tests, Joint Verification Experiments, JVE, Underground Nuclear Tests, Seismic Calibration, On-site, Yield Measurement
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