Originally Posted by
stevieed
Originally Posted by
Polomarc
In the Guardian one of the summaries mentions that"The United Nations Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation has asked nuclear experts to check for any evidence of an explosion in relation to the missing plane." Why nuclear experts, are they specialized in general explosives?
I would imagine they're using their imagery to search for possible explosions. An explosion, nuclear or conventional, will give off IR. This is what they're looking for.
Originally Posted by
hanmer
I believe they monitor the globe for seismic shock waves from explosions relating to possible detonations of nuclear weapons. How they could detect explosion or impact of an aircraft I'm not sure, and then determine the location of that explosion/impact.
I forget whether it was mentioned upthread here (maybe not, since I don't see it in the Wiki) or over on a.net, but a US government source has already issued a statement to the effect that their
resources which watch the entire globe from space for any "flash" that would indicate a (potentially nuclear) explosion or the launch of a (potentially hostile) rocket did
not detect any "flash" in the area where the plane was known or expected to be. Presumably other TBT signatories are being asked to check their data as well.