Homeland Security: New Devices for National Security. / Charles Choi and Dee Ann Divis.
by Choi, Charles; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 42Global Issues. Publisher: UPI, 2002ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Biometry | Bomb detectors | Human face recognition (Computer science) | Identification cards | National security | Smart cards | Terrorism -- PreventionDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Scanners that screen for everything from plastic explosives and biological weapons to deceit on the faces of airline passengers may become tools in securing U.S. borders against terrorism. Aimed as improving security without slowing down commerce, the new devices will have to contend with the hundreds of millions of people, trucks, shipping containers, airplanes and vehicles that pour over the border every year." (UPI) This article discusses tools being developed to aid in the war against terrorism.
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Originally Published: Homeland Security: New Devices for National Security, Feb. 10, 2002; pp. n.p..
"Scanners that screen for everything from plastic explosives and biological weapons to deceit on the faces of airline passengers may become tools in securing U.S. borders against terrorism. Aimed as improving security without slowing down commerce, the new devices will have to contend with the hundreds of millions of people, trucks, shipping containers, airplanes and vehicles that pour over the border every year." (UPI) This article discusses tools being developed to aid in the war against terrorism.
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