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Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 John McHale	Cell Phone Sensors Detect Radiation to Thwart Nuclear Terrorism Researchers are engineering cell phones that help detect potential terrorist threats such as radiological "dirty bombs" and nuclear weapons.
National Defense November 2005 Harold Kenneddy	U.S. Customs Goes High-Tech for Cargo Security The gritty docks along the Dundalk Marine Terminal, in Maryland's Port of Baltimore, are among the last lines of defense in the multi-layered, global effort by the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arm to intercept illegal cargo.
Wired October 23, 2007 Michael Levi	In the Search for Loose Nukes, a Little Propaganda Goes a Long Way Strategic communication misleads terrorists into believing that nuclear attempts are futile.
National Defense June 2009 Erwin & Magnuson	7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror.
IEEE Spectrum September 2006	Nine Cautionary Tales If terrorists decide to strike again, are we prepared? Not really, as these scenarios of extremism make clear: 1. Bomb in a Box... 2. Electroshock... 3. Toxic Train Wreck... 4. Crude Attack... 5. Agro-Armageddon... etc.
National Defense September 2009 Magnuson & Breitbach	Tech vs. Terrorism For every threat to the homeland, there's a business that has a technology waiting in the wings to counter a would-be terrorist's moves.
National Defense June 2008 Stew Magnuson	Public Still in the Dark When it Comes to Dirty Bomb Threat The federal government has come up short in public information campaigns to educate the public on what to do in the event of a radiation attack
National Defense September 2004 Joe Pappalardo	New Technologies Target Terrorist, Suicide Bombs By studying structural failures in lab blasts and real-world attacks, researchers are honing in on new shock-absorbing materials, casualty-minimizing layouts and new methods of securing the interaction between the soil and building foundations.
National Defense February 2007 Stew Magnuson	DHS Technology Chief to Focus on Explosives Threat The Pentagon will have some help in its ongoing effort to defeat improvised explosive devices if Jay Cohen, director of science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, gets his way.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 John McHale	Locked down, sensors everywhere Perimeters today are being protected by sensors that detect everything from x-ray scanners at checkpoints to cameras mounted on unmanned aircraft.
National Defense November 2012 Erwin et al.	Top Five Threats to National Security in the Coming Decade The next wave of national security threats might be more than the technology community can handle. They are complex, multidimensional problems against which no degree of U.S. technical superiority in stealth, fifth-generation air warfare or night-vision is likely to suffice.
National Defense March 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Security Beat The Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services will share $275 million to expand the BioWatch program, improve a nationwide bio threat reporting system and upgrade food and animal inspections.
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy	DHS Technology Budget To Exceed $1B in 2005 An array of emerging technologies is the key to defending the United States from its enemies, according to Charles E. McQueary, undersecretary of homeland security for science and technology.
National Defense January 2006 Stew Magnuson	Plan to Protect U.S. Ports Homes In on Contraband The challenge facing the DHS, importers and the shipping industry is to prevent weapons of mass destruction, would-be illegal immigrants and contraband from entering U.S. ports -- including overland traffic from Canada and Mexico -- without disrupting the flow of goods.
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson	Feds Begin to Tackle the Vexing Problem of How to Defeat Homemade Bombs Congress' attention remains focused on preventing the use of weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil, but improvised explosive devices do not receive the same attention as the chemical, biological or nuclear threats.
National Defense November 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Nuclear Detectors Tested in Nevada Desert The newly formed Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) inherited the project, dedicated to stopping a nuclear attack on U.S. soil, from the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency.
National Defense February 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Security Beat Britain and U.S. Agree To Share Security Tech. The United States and United Kingdom are attempting to bridge their homeland security efforts.
National Defense September 2009 Tessa Gellerson	Self-Storage Facilities Eye Sensors to Detect Terrorist Threats LifeStorage, a self-storage facility based in Chicago, has more than doubled the money it spends on counterterrorism technology.
National Defense November 2006 Stew Magnuson	Fear of Terror Weapons Drives Tech Funding With the nation in the throes of the so-called "long war," it is no surprise that the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security's research dollars is going toward technologies designed to prevent terrorist attacks.
National Defense December 2006 Stew Magnuson	Homeland Security Tussles with GAO Over Radiation Portals A DHS official said he was confident that the next generation of portals designed to find nuclear materials in shipping containers will work despite a withering GAO report questioning performance data and their high price tags.
National Defense June 2011 Stew Magnuson	DHS Program Gives Hazardous Materials Teams Networked Sensors The integrated chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive program developed a set of standards that allows these sensors to transmit data directly back to a higher headquarters where others can sort through the findings on a common operating picture.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006	Unattended Ground Sensors After several decades of rather obscure awareness in military operations, the use of passive sensors for remote battlefield applications is becoming more popular... Ground surveillance sensors... Future combat systems... etc.
Popular Mechanics March 18, 2008 Erik Sofge	Homeland Adds On-the-Go Radioactive Hunter to Garage A modified Chevy Suburban XL that can detect the presence of radioactive material was delivered to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by Raytheon last month.
Wired Nicholas Thompson	Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret.
National Defense November 2009 Erwin, Jean & Magnuson	Today's Fights Expose Technological Weak Spots Disruptive challenges, such as roadside bombs, combatants camouflaged as civilians, and insurgent camps that are undetectable by electronic sensors, have forced U.S. military leaders to search for new tactics and technologies.
BusinessWeek August 1, 2005 Geri Smith	A Border Transformed Since 9/11, officials at the Laredo crossing have had two conflicting goals: Stop terrorists and keep trade flowing.
Chemistry World December 19, 2013 Rebecca Trager	Stolen radiotherapy unit sparks soul-searching on nuclear security When a truck carrying a powerful hospital radiotherapy machine was hijacked at a fuel station near Mexico City on December second, authorities raced to find it.
National Defense June 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Weighing the Costs of Security A smorgasbord of legislation and policy directives aimed at patching up security at U.S. ports in recent years has resulted in expenditures of billions of dollars worth of protective systems and technologies.
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 Ritchie S. King	How 5 Security Technologies Fared After 9/11 Developed, deployed, and sometimes deep sixed
National Defense December 2010 Grace V. Jean	Advancing Hidden Nuclear Material Detection On any given day, ships and trucks deliver cargo containers filled with tons of imported goods. Homeland security officials have long warned that terrorists may use them to smuggle nuclear materials into the United States.
Chemistry World March 24, 2011 Rebecca Trager	Flights from Japan trip US airport radiation detectors Low levels of radiation have been detected on planes arriving at US airports from Japan, but experts say that overly sensitive detectors are culpable and the public should not be concerned.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006	The Challenges of Command and Control in Urban Operations In the past, offensive military operations have usually been conducted in urban environments only when unavoidable, but conflicts are shifting into the cities, where terrorists and insurgents find safe havens.
National Defense March 2006 Harold Kennedy	At Special Ops Forum, Experts Weigh Prospect of WMD Attacks As military leaders devote increasing attention to neutralizing roadside bombs in Iraq, specialists caution that it would be a mistake to dismiss the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction.
BusinessWeek September 19, 2005 Ante & Barrett	New York Takes Another Hit If there's one thing that all experts agree on, it's that the city should fund a public education campaign, giving residents a crash course in the risks of a dirty bomb attack and what they should do to avoid contamination.
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Slakey & Tannenbaum	What About The Nukes? The U.S. nuclear stockpile is showing its age, but building new warheads isn't the solution.
National Defense March 2008 Grace V. Jean	Robots Get Smarter, But Who Will Buy Them? While the technologies to enable fully autonomous vehicles have advanced, robotics experts say there is still more to be done to make them viable in military and commercial applications in the next decade.
National Defense December 2006 Robert H. Williams	Homeland Security Selects Nuke Detectors Next generation spectroscopic portal monitors fashioned by Thermo Electron Corp. will be installed in ports and border entry points to detect and halt the introduction into the United States of nuclear weapons and radiological materials.
National Defense June 2009 Matthew Rusling	Customs Employs See-Through Technology at Border The Department of Homeland Security is employing a new device that can peer through vehicles used in cross-border smuggling.
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson	Bad News All Around for DHS Cargo Technology Programs The Department of Homeland Security's advanced radiation detection portal monitor program continues to struggle.
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The Motley Fool February 10, 2006 Dan Bloom	OSI Systems' Rays of Hope Things may improve over the next two years for the technology conglomerate's Rapiscan division. Investors, take note.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Homeland Security Policies Overlook Essential Issues, Says Shipping Executive Security industry soothsayers have been sounding alarms about the prospect of a nuclear or biological weapon reaching U.S. shores in a shipping container.
BusinessWeek March 29, 2004 Paul Magnusson	The Hard Lesson Of Madrid There are too many holes in the safety net. Here's what the U.S. still needs to do
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Wired April 2002 Bruce Sterling	Peace Is War Get ready for the new frontier of missile defense, where peacekeeping space lasers battle a storm of rogue nukes...
National Defense December 2007 Grace Jean	What's Next for Ground Robots? As the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's automated car challenge gets more successful, the agency must think ahead about what will be the goal for next years competition.
National Defense May 2008 Stew Magnuson	To Succeed, Soldiers `Need to See the Environment' Troops fighting in Iraq's cities often complain that they cannot see the enemy and need sensors that can penetrate walls, identify foes in pitch dark and locate buried explosives.
BusinessWeek November 4, 2010 Keane & Park	The Terrorist Threat in Cargo Containers By 2012, all U.S.-bound cargo containers must be scanned for terrorist threats. Today, fewer than 1 percent are.
Salon.com December 10, 2001 Damien Cave	Nukes now! Post-Sept. 11, isn't it time to get off our fossil fuel fixation and take another look at nuclear power?