What Nuclear Bombs Taught Us About Whales
A monitoring system developed to listen for secret nuclear tests mostly hears other events happening all around Earth. Thanks to CTBTO for sponsoring this video: https://www.ctbto.org/ ...
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth. NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE… would be pretty bad... so in the 1990s, most of the world’s governments formally agreed to a deal to outlaw tests of nuclear weapons. To hold each other accountable, they set up a global network of sensors that pick up the low-frequency waves that nuclear explosions send over long distances. With a few notable exceptions, most countries adhere to the rules, so nuclear tests are pretty rare and the network mostly picks up signals from other sources, like volcanoes...rocket explosions...ship engines...and even the vibrations of icebergs. This background noise is a headache for the people listening for nuclear explosions, but it’s a boon for lots of other listeners, who can also access the data, with perm...
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth. NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE… would be pretty bad... so in the 1990s, most of the world’s governments formally agreed to a deal to outlaw tests of nuclear weapons. To hold each other accountable, they set up a global network of sensors that pick up the low-frequency waves that nuclear explosions send over long distances. With a few notable exceptions, most countries adhere to the rules, so nuclear tests are pretty rare and the network mostly picks up signals from other sources, like volcanoes...rocket explosions...ship engines...and even the vibrations of icebergs. This background noise is a headache for the people listening for nuclear explosions, but it’s a boon for lots of other listeners, who can also access the data, with perm...
