underground test
collocation in Englishmeaningsofundergroundandtest
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underground
adjective
adverb
uk/ˌʌn.dəˈɡraʊnd/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈɡraʊnd/
below the surface of the earth; ...
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test
noun[C]
uk/test/us/test/
a way of discovering, by questions or practical activities, what someone knows, or what someone or something can do or ...
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(Definition ofundergroundandtestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Its function was to diagnoseundergroundtestprogramme results.
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We therefore have a continuing requirement to sustain a minimumundergroundtestprogramme.
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The point of verification is whether it is anundergroundtestor not.
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That was anundergroundtestand was not in any way in conflict with the limited test ban treaty.
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It concludes that such a network would serve to detect and identify all normalundergroundtestexplosions with yields greater than the 1 kiloton.
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I believe that it may be possible now, by scientific instruments, to detect anundergroundtestand to distinguish it from a natural seismic disturbance.
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In defence of their conclusions it must be remembered that they were discussing the matter with data derived only from a singleundergroundtest.
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The factory was self-sufficient, with its own electric power generation facilities and several testing sites including anundergroundtesttrack.
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Is not the question of the detection and verification of underground tests the main obstacle to the achievement of a nuclear test ban agreement?
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The results enabled us to simplify our requirements for verification in relation to underground tests, although not to dispense altogether with on-site inspections.
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But, of course, we were not able to get a clear agreement that during those negotiations both sides would be free to continue underground tests.
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But this is not the case, and other underground tests will be continuing on both sides, so far as we know.
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We have been pressing all along for an extension of the limited test ban to underground tests.
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But there are difficulties about certain types, the smaller types, of underground tests.
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We are therefore left only with the question of underground tests.
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The first set of these problems relates to underground tests and the second to the length of the moratorium.
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What we hope to get is a comprehensive agreement, including the underground tests as well as the atmospheric and under-water tests.
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Underground tests are less of an environmental hazard than atmospheric tests, but underground tests produce radioactivity which seeps into the water table.
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All that remains is the small kiloton, low-yield, underground tests.
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So far as the ban on underground tests is concerned, it is a physical impossibility to have an inspection of every suspicious earth tremor.
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