Upcoming Events

2018 CTBT Science Diplomacy Symposium

The 2nd CTBT Science Diplomacy Symposium will be held from 21 May to 1 June 2018 at the Vienna International Centre in Vienna, Austria. As with previous outreach and education activities, registrants can take part in the Symposium either online or in-person.

More details are provided at www.ctbto.org/2sds.

Objectives:

• To raise public awareness of the CTBT’s contribution to international peace and security
• To encourage cooperative and collaborative research and innovation on nuclear test monitoring science and technology
• To stimulate creative thinking about possible political, legal and diplomatic solutions to the challenges facing the Treaty
• To engage diplomats, practitioners and policy makers, academics, and the next generation of non-proliferation and disarmament experts on the CTBT and its verification regime

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NDC Workshop 2018

Provide a forum for NDC experts to share experience in fulfilling their verification responsibilities;

Provide NDC feedback to the PTS on all aspects of the data, products, services and support NDCs in their work; under this objective, special emphasis will be put on:

- NDC contribution to Performance Monitoring and Testing (through NPEs and other means)

- Discussion on NDC involvement in the IDC Progressive Commissioning Plan, particularly:

progress of phase 5b

development of IDC Validation and Acceptance Plan

- Discussion of recent and on-going IDC projects:

IDC software re-engineering project;

Status of the extended NDC-in-a-box;

Transition from GCI II to GCI III.

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Technical Meeting on the IDC Validation and Acceptance Test Plan

The objective is to continue the process of completing the IDC Validation and Acceptance Test Plan. The focus for this particular meeting will be on reviewing the results from the Experiment 2 conducted in September 2017. Progress in this regard will be presented at WGB 51.