{"id":408772,"date":"2017-11-28T09:14:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0d471c0220e3e225fa9b197551a9a36c"},"modified":"2017-11-28T09:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T13:14:13","slug":"ear-to-the-ground-listening-for-nuclear-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=408772","title":{"rendered":"Ear to the ground, listening for nuclear blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seismologist Lynn Sykes has been working for more than 50 years to halt the testing of nuclear bombs. His work, along with others&#8217;, has demonstrated that clandestine tests can be detected and measured using seismic waves. Development of this technology led up to the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. Since then, testing has nearly stopped, though key nations including the United States have so far failed to ratify the agreement. In his forthcoming book, Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist&#8217;s Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing, Sykes provides an insider&#8217;s look at the issues. Below, he discusses the science, his experiences and the current outlook. Sykes is the Higgins professor emeritus at Columbia University&#8217;s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seismologist Lynn Sykes has been working for more than 50 years to halt the testing of nuclear bombs. His work, along with others&#8217;, has demonstrated that clandestine tests can be detected and measured using seismic waves. Development of this technology&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408773,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408772\/revisions\/408773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}