It should be noted that nuclear weapon testing leads to a lot of problems for the environment. The United Nations opened the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996. It banned all nuclear explosions, whether for military or peaceful purposes.
To monitor compliance, its verification regime is designed to detect any nuclear explosion conducted anywhere – underground, under water or in the atmosphere.
Study proposes earthquake tremors can hide nuclear test explosions
The new study by Los Alamos scientists states that the success rate of advanced detectors to identify a 1.7-ton nuclear weapon exploded underground falls to just 37 percent in the case of an earthquake happening within 155 miles (250 km) distance within 100 seconds.
This is a significant dip compared to the 97 percent identification ac