Word: detections
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...allegations stick. For example, last fall the CIA pointed to satellite snaps of construction under way at the al Tuwaitha complex near Baghdad as proof that Iraq was rebuilding its nuclear-bomb plant. After 12 visits there sampling the soil, testing equipment and checking for radiation, the inspectors could detect no nuclear developments. At three other sites that the U.S. said were resuming production of chemical and biological agents, repeated inspections showed the plants were either inoperative or producing something other than microbes. The Administration says that just proves why inspections will never root out the weapons programs that Washington...
...screen checked bags. L-3's version uses technology originally developed to process military surveillance and reconnaissance photos. The company produces other scanning devices, designed to reveal concealed weapons (including any secreted inside human-body cavities), that are based on technology it supplied to help soldiers and intelligence operatives detect Taliban fighters hiding in Afghan caves...
Today the details of the attacks sound all too familiar: coordinated strikes across a nation's financial and cultural capital; Islamic zealots possessed by a lethal intensity of purpose; security agencies that fail to detect any sign of danger beforehand. And, behind it all, a shadowy boss beyond the reach of the law, with connections to Pakistan's secret service and a vast personal fortune...
Wands similar to supermarket bar-code readers might be developed eventually to detect missing equipment in patients’ bodies...
...requirements include putting bags through the huge explosive-detection-system (EDS) machines that travelers have seen at U.S. airports for years. But for the first time on a wide scale, checked bags will also be opened and hand-searched by a TSA employee or examined with the help of an explosive-trace-detection device, which often requires opening the bag as well. In addition, the TSA is using bomb-sniffing dogs and a system called bag matching, which actually does nothing to detect explosives but merely makes sure that if a passenger misses a flight, his or her bag will...