The VELA Program. A Twenty-Five Year Review of Basic Research

Abstract : Partial Contents: A Review of Test Ban Research; Underground Nuclear Weapons Testing and Seismology - A Cooperative Effort; Forensic Seismology; Technical Issues Related to Nuclear Test Ban Treaties; VELA Overview: The Early Years of the Seismic Research Program; Explosion/Earthquake Source Theory; Linear Elastic Waveform Modeling in the Inelastic Region of Underground Nuclear Explosions; Seismic Wave Propagation Effects; Development of Theory and Numerical Modeling; In-Situ Paths Strain and Stress Bounds with Application to Desert Alluvium; Seismic Scattering and Lithospheric Heterogeneity; Body Wave Propagation in three-Dimensional Source and Receiver Structure; Instrumentation and Signal Analysis; Regional Seismic Array Program and High Frequency Instrumentation; Signal Analysis: Explosion Seismology; Earthquake or Explosion: Where are We Now?; Teleseismic Methods; Regional Methods; and Tools for Seismic Data Analysis and Management for Research and International Data Exchange.