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Wired November 2002 Steven Johnson	Stopping Loose Nukes Prevention is a game of odds, not certainty. Is an "atomic wall" of sophisticated sensors the answer to protecting population centers from terrorist attack by bioweapon or dirty bomb?
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.
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 September 2011 Stew Magnuson	Radiation Detection Portal Program Comes to an End One of the Department of Homeland Security's most troubled technology development programs came to an end in July, when the Advanced Spectrographic Portals, which were designed to ferret out nuclear material at ports, was terminated.
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 September 2012 Stew Magnuson	DHS' Nuclear Detection Efforts Continue on Smaller Scale The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office could never get the technology to work well enough, and estimated costs to deploy the portals swelled, so after six years with nothing to show for the millions spent, the ax fell.
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.
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 January 2014 Valerie Insinna	New Technologies Boost Radiation Detector Effectiveness As the neutron-detecting material Helium 3 grows ever more expensive and scarce, companies that make radiation detectors are looking for alternatives offering better performance at a comparable price.
Popular Mechanics February 2, 2010 Erin McCarthy	Director Lucy Walker Takes on Nuclear Weapons in Countdown to Zero In Countdown to Zero, Walker aims to show the world that nuclear weapons are an even bigger threat now than they were in the Cold War.
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.
National Defense June 2009 Erwin & Magnuson	7 Deadly Myths About Weapons of Terror Seven noteworthy misconceptions associated with weapons of terror.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John McHale	DHS turns to high tech to control borders Border agents cannot possibly check every car or every traveler. So U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials are relying on new technologies -- such as those noted here -- to tighten the country's borders.
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.
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.
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.
Popular Mechanics December 29, 2008 Jeremy Jacquot	3 Projects We Hope to See From the DOE's Next Nuclear Research Facility Studying rare nuclear isotopes with unstable, short-lived nuclei has plenty of practical and commendable applications in medicine, national security, and cosmology.
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 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.
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 December 2011 Eric Beidel	Small Device Alerts Users to Nuclear Threats FLIR Systems Inc. has developed the nanoRaider, which is the size of a pager and can accurately identify even the most shielded of radioactive sources, they say.
Chemistry World January 12, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Shortages spur race for helium-3 alternatives The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, based in Tokai, needs 100,000 liters of helium-3 to run properly, but has secured only 85,000 liters.
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 Ritchie S. King	How 5 Security Technologies Fared After 9/11 Developed, deployed, and sometimes deep sixed
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.
National Defense March 2009 Matthew Rusling	After Six Years, Still No Tamper-Proof Shipping Containers After a six-year search for a tamper-proof shipping container, no product has been fielded and one major vendor has dropped out of the race, citing a lack of progress by the Department of Homeland Security.
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.
Popular Mechanics June 2006 Brad Reagan	Public Defenders Protecting America's cities, ports, borders and airports requires new technology and new tactics.
National Defense September 2009 Katie Breitbach	International Gateway Airports Proposed for Small Aircraft Three Department of Homeland Security agencies are collaborating on a proposal to have small aircraft entering the United States land at so-called "gateway airports" so they can be inspected before traveling to large cities.
National Defense November 2010 Stew Magnuson	Former Customs and Border Protection Chief Slams Congress As deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection in the Bush administration, Jayson Ahern was the primary target of Congress' ire when it came to a mandate to screen 100 percent of all shipping containers bound for the United States for nuclear materials.
National Defense November 2009 Wright & Magnuson	Government Ignores Cargo Scanning Law, Port Operator Says The Department of Homeland Security is ignoring a law that calls on it to monitor, by 2012, every container that enters a U.S. port, an executive at one of the world's leading port-operating companies charged.
BusinessWeek January 22, 2007 Aaron Pressman	Homeland Security 2.0 Five years after September 11, a new wave of smarter high-tech tools is coming to market.
National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson	Johnson Latest DHS Secretary to Waive 100 Percent Cargo Screening Mandate Despite a long string of secretaries and Customs and Border Protection commissioners speaking out against the practicality of the law, some members of Congress are still pushing DHS to fulfill the mandate.
IEEE Spectrum September 2010 Sally Adee	Physics Projects Deflate for Lack of Helium-3 U.S. radiation detectors suck up the existing supply
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.
National Defense March 2007	Security Beat Coast Guard Ponders Future, Delivers New Mission Statement... Border Patrol Reaching Out to Fill 6,000 Slots... etc.
IndustryWeek July 22, 2009 Peter Alpern	MIT Nanocomposite Material Holds Promise for Energy MIT scientist creates a model to design radiation-resistant materials.
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.
Salon.com May 16, 2001 Fiona Morgan	"A dangerous step backwards" Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back?
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Samuel K. Moore	Cold Fission If a nuclear version of a solar cell sounds like one of the old atomic battery concepts from the 1950s, it is, but with a potentially all-new twist.
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright	An X-Ray Machine for Nukes The government is upgrading the X-ray technology that detects flaws in its nuclear weapons stockpile.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Department of Homeland Security uses Northrop Grumman UAV The Hunter UAV from Northrop Grumman, in helping the U.S. Department of Homeland Security protect the U.S.-Mexican border, will use optoelectronic infrared sensors to scan the Arizona border area 90 miles southeast of Tucson.
Mother Jones May/Jun 2002 Michael Scherer	Building a Better Bomb Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to develop for conventional wars...
Popular Mechanics June 15, 2009 Andrew Moseman	10 Geekiest Elements Ever Created in a Lab The periodic table doesn't end at 92 -- not even close. Last week the official tally reached 112
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.
National Defense March 2010 Austin Wright	Backpack-Wearing Cockroaches to Detect Radiation The creature that's expected to inherit the Earth following a nuclear holocaust might also be well suited to help prevent man's atomic self-destruction.
Food Processing July 2011 Steven Hoffman	Fukushima in Our Food Radiation from Japan is showing up in our food. Shouldn't we do something about it?
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Tyghe Trimble	Using Nukes To Extract Oil: Time Machine 1960 Forty-seven years ago the Atomic Energy Commission's Plowshare Program looked into using nuclear bombs for energy and industrial purposes.
BusinessWeek May 30, 2005 Stan Crock	Back To The Cold War? Rogue nations like Iran and North Korea are amassing a nuclear arsenal. What should Washington do?
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	Debate Over Next-Generation Radiation Portals Continues In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Government Accountability Office were still trading barbs over the effectiveness of the next generation of radiation portals to be deployed at ports.