Israel's Geo-Physical Institute will set up a network of 16 seismographic stations in the North to monitor nuclear tests in the Middle East, the Israeli radio reported.
It will be supervised by the Atomic Energy Commission on behalf of the international body that monitors the treaty on nuclear testing, the Radio reported.
Israel, which has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has never admitted having a nuclear arsenal nor opened the Dimona nuclear plant to international inspectors.
But it is widely believed that the nuclear reactor in the Negev desert town of Dimona is capable of producing the plutonium needed for atomic bombs and foreign experts suspect up to 200 nuclear warheads are stored at the plant - Albawaba.com
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