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Over the past years, nuclear weapons test monitoring technologies have evolved enormously. This has made it possible to detect nuclear tests in all environments possible. The efficiency of the monitoring technologies and the capability of the analyst play a crucial role in nuclear weapon test monitoring. In this paper, we analyse an NDC Preparedness Exercises (NPE) and also present an overview of some of the most important developments in monitoring nuclear weapons and the associated challenges. We used geotool to analyse the seismic data for events that triggered the NPE2019 exercise. Both International Monitoring System (IMS) and Non-IMS stations were used to locate the event. From the analysis, the event occurred on 29 July 2019 at 23:17:49.9. at location, latitude, 48.0706 and longitude, 9.2222. The signature of the waveform obtained for the event clearly shows it was caused by an explosion as reported. We conclude that the ease with which events are located is augmented by the numerous IMS and non-IMS stations scattered around the world. However, the experience of the analyst and the capability of the software used for the analysis to accurately locate an event cannot be overlooked.
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