NORSAR

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NORSAR in Kjeller, Norway

NORSAR is a foundation established in 1968 as part of the Norwegian-US agreement for the detection of earthquakes and nuclear explosions.[1][2][3] The name derives from the foundation's original project, the Norwegian Seismic Array.

Description

Located at

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.[4] NORSAR conducts basic seismological research, develops software and provides consultancy for the petroleum industry.[5]

ARPANET logical map, 1977. NORSAR is located at lower right.

NORSAR was the first non-US site included in

TCP/IP over SATNET, becoming two of the first nodes on the Internet.[9]

Since 1999, NORSAR has been an independent research foundation.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ About us, www.norsar.no
  2. ^ NORSAR History
  3. ^ Novak, Matt (1 February 2016). "The Secret Project To Turn The Internet Into An Anti-Soviet Spy Network". gizmodo.com.au. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  4. ^ Marks, Paul (9 September 2014). "Spidery forest gadgets catch secret nuclear blasts". New Scientist.
  5. ^ "R & D". Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  6. ^ "NORSAR becomes the first non-US node on ARPANET, the predecessor to today's Internet". NORSAR (Norway Seismic Array Research). Archived from the original on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  7. ^ "ARPANET Maps 1969 to 1977". Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  8. S2CID 1558618. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2020-02-07.
  9. ^ Hauben, Ronda (2004). "The Internet: On its International Origins and Collaborative Vision". Amateur Computerist. 12 (2). Retrieved May 29, 2009.
  10. ^ "About us". Retrieved 21 July 2017.

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