The ARISE infrasound network component incorporates the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization CTBTO International Monitoring System (IMS) network globally distributed infrasound arrays as well several European infrasound arrays.

The CTBTO bans nuclear explosions by everyone, everywhere: on the Earth's surface, in the atmosphere, underwater and underground. It makes it very difficult for countries to develop nuclear bombs for the first time, or for countries that already have them, to make more powerful bombs. It also prevents the huge damage caused by radioactivity from nuclear explosions to humans, animals and plants.