ABSTRACT
The UK programme had been very good at anticipating future problems and ways in which they might be addressed; for example, it established that there was no need for national seismic stations in the USSR. All this in part was a result of the nature of the working environment at Blacknest and the support of senior UKAEA staff. The scientists were left to pursue what they thought would work and drop things that did not. Despite the disparity in resources, financial and human, the UK effort led to significant contribution to the science of seismology on the development of arrays and the processing of broadband data for discrimination of events being two good examples. Moreover, all this had been built from scratch. Furthermore, the Blacknest scientists focus and expertise in the science of detection and identification of underground explosions rather than earthquakes gave them a different and more insightful perspective on the problems of test-ban verification.
