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Nuclear missile detector
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park has on display this DEC PDP 1134 seismometer array station processor, which was used to detect earthquakes. Here trustee Kevin Murrell explains how the machine was used to detect underground nuclear missile testing explosions after the nuclear test ban treaty and how it helped find a plane that had crash-landed.

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