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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...important next step would be to make the detection technologies faster and smaller. At Livermore, scientists developed and recently licensed a device called RadScout. Designed to detect trace amounts of radiation, it's a battery-powered, lunch-box-size handheld detector that customs officers could use to inspect suspicious containers at close range. Bruce Goodwin, head of the lab's nuclear-weapons program, says he hopes to see future versions of the device no bigger than a pen and "cheap enough so that every cop can have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Be Safer? | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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