Editing Project Vela (section)

[[File:Vela 5B in Orbit.gif|thumb|Artist's Rendition of Satellite Vela 5b in Orbit Around the Earth]]
'''Project Vela''' was a [[United States Department of Defense]] project to monitor [[Soviet Union]] compliance with the 1963 [[Partial Test Ban Treaty]].<ref name=":0">U.S. Department of Defense. Advanced Research Projects Agency. (1961, July 20). ADDENDUM to: Proceedings of Symposium: Project Vela (1st ed.) (263145). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved May 24, 2017 from the World Wide Web: <nowiki>[https://web.archive.org/web/20181030150429/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/263145.pdf Article title]</nowiki>.</ref> The treaty banned the testing of nuclear weapons in the [[atmosphere]], in outer space, and underwater, but permitted underground testing.