Sentence examples for clandestine test from inspiring English sources

Although the virus would be simple to disseminate (the government in 1965 did a clandestine test at an airport in which sprayers spread mock germs), many experts say no nation possessing the virus would give it to a terrorist because of the danger of starting a global epidemic that would kill indiscriminately.

Opponents of the treaty had argued that some countries might undertake clandestine tests to develop nuclear weaponry or improve an existing stockpile and that the United States' stockpile of nuclear weapons could deteriorate and become unreliable without testing.

Some 400 scientists gathered here, CTBTO's home base, this week to discuss the results of a series of studies carried out by external researchers over the past year to test the capabilities of the system for detecting clandestine tests and to consider other scientific uses for the wealth of data collected.

A veteran field scientist, he has taken on Japan's powerful whaling industry (conducting clandestine tests of commercially sold whale meat by cloning the DNA in hotel bathrooms to accommodate CITES restrictions -- and successfully exposing the rampant illegal hunting that exists.

The report investigated technical issues surrounding the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and also concluded that the treaty's monitoring system, along with America's own intelligence resources, have made huge strides in recent years in their ability to detect clandestine tests that could pose a military threat to the United States.

The problem came to light after a Chinese infectious disease specialist did clandestine H.I.V. testing in the area.

In the 1960s the Vela defense satellites designed to detect gamma rays from clandestine nuclear testing serendipitously discovered enigmatic gamma-ray bursts coming from deep space.

In the 1960s defense satellites designed to detect X-rays and gamma rays from clandestine nuclear testing serendipitously discovered enigmatic gamma-ray bursts coming from deep space.

The California readings were made by an arm of the Air Force Technical Applications Center, an institution of the cold war that monitors for signs of clandestine nuclear tests.

Addressing worries about verification, General Shalikashvili argued that the kind of low-level clandestine nuclear tests that Russia or China might try to carry out would be of little use in developing militarily decisive weapons.

And can satellites pick up clandestine nuclear tests?