U.S. Launches Tests to Screen Air Cargo for Bombs
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Technology at airports to check  luggage for bombs is now being used by the government in tests  for screening cargo loaded aboard passenger planes, officials  said on Tuesday.
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Dubai Ports World, the Arab-owned company which set off a furor with its purchase of six U.S. port operations earlier this year, has been cleared to join a federal pilot program to test the methods used to screen U.S.-bound cargo for radiation.
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The Transportation Security Administration last week moved forward with plans to test its new Secure Flight passenger-screening system.
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Undercover investigators were able  to slip explosives and weapons past security screeners during  tests at 15 U.S. airports, according to a 2003 investigation by  the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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The Phoenix airport on Friday became the first in the United States to test new X-ray technology that can see through people's clothes
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The U.S. military on Saturday launched a five-day war game to see how space-based assets such as satellite communications and precision bomb guidance systems would fare in a hypothetical war against terrorism in 2020.
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The Transportation Security Administration will test a system that will compare names of passengers on domestic airlines to those on terrorist watch lists.
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Machines built to find weapons hidden in clothes or to sniff out bomb residue may be coming to an airport or train station near you, if transportation officials ever deploy technologies now being tested. By Ryan Singel.
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A test project, now in use at Reagan National Airport, aims to give frequent fliers a quicker pass through security checkpoints by using the latest biometric technologies -- such as eye scans -- to verify a passenger's identity.
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Some of the 380 tons of munitions missing from a weapons facility outside Baghdad could be used to trigger a nuclear bomb. BY COLUM LYNCH AND BRADLEY GRAHAM.
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Screeners failed to find most of the fake bombs smuggled by plainclothes investigators through checkpoints at two major airports from late 2005 until last fall, the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday.
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Packages taken to airline ticket counters for shipment on passenger planes will have to go through the same security screening as checked baggage, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced Thursday.
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Single-stranded DNA can be used to identify explosives and other airborne compounds.
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The Phoenix airport on Friday became the first in the United States to test new X-ray technology that can see through people's clothes and show the body's contours with blush-inducing clarity.
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U.S.-bound cargo will be scanned for nuclear and radiological material at six foreign ports starting in February under a pact  with host governments announced by U.S. officials yesterday, including  a port operated by an Arab-owned company that ignited a political storm in Congress.
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Air passengers boarding flights in the United States will be subject to closer screening if they are wearing baggy or bulky clothes, it emerged today.
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The pilotless planes use devices designed to pick up traces of nuclear activity that are not accessible by satellites, officials say.