Word: monitorable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next month a U.S. team will similarly monitor a Soviet nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, U.S.S.R. The idea: to make sure that both sides can verify whether a test yields more or less than 150 kilotons. If the joint- verification experiment is successful, the U.S. and the Soviet Union could at last ratify two treaties that ban more powerful tests, and the world might be a tiny bit safer...
Several critical technical questions remain unanswered. The air control tower at Bandar Abbas had been talking regularly by radio to the Airbus, but the Navy did not explain why the Vincennes failed to monitor these communications. Shipboard commercial-flight schedules showed that Iran Air Flight 655 should be in the air about this time, but nobody reacted when an officer standing behind Rogers in the CIC raised the possibility that the oncoming airplane was a commercial flight...
...turned up last month when Soviet inspectors searched personal items being shipped home by three Americans working for the Energy Department at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. Soviet authorities charged that the items were sensitive and that shipment of them was banned under the agreement permitting each superpower to monitor underground tests on the other's territory...
...production of chemical weapons is proceeding at a sluggish pace in Geneva. A treaty, admits the U.S. delegation, is still "years away." Unresolved questions include who will pay for implementation of the terms of the agreement, how to ensure that stockpiles are not being concealed and how to monitor civilian chemical industries...
...more than a few Washington cynics speculated that the "human error" leak was an attempt to head off criticism of the Aegis system, the defensive backbone of the Navy's 14 carrier battle groups. Critics charge that Aegis, which can monitor hundreds of targets at a time, has never been adequately tested and is better suited to the open ocean than to the crowded gulf. "The Navy has to protect the Aegis," said a congressional staff aide. "If Aegis doesn't work, the carrier groups can't survive...