Simulation finds 9/11 fireproofing key
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A computer simulation of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks supports a federal agency's findings that the initial impact from the hijacked airplanes stripped away crucial fireproofing material and that the weakened towers collapsed under their own weight.
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By Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 20--One of the most egregious pieces of unfinished business from 9/11 is the continuing vulnerability of chemical plants to terrorist attack.
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It seems as if the fallout caused by Fahrenheit 9/11   will never die down.
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To defend against future attacks, airports may soon get new tools to help ID hidden explosives
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Thereâs security everywhere, but there are still so many explosions that itâs hard to keep track--let alone the toll they take.
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A stark assessment has found that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
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U.S. officials have been wrestling with how to get airport screeners to think more creatively about detecting possible terrorism threats.
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A new airport security system relies on human judgment
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The developer hoping to rebuild the World Trade Centre in lower Manhattan last night won a significant victory when a jury decided that the September 11 attack on the site was two separate incidents for insurance purposes.
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(Source: ProCurve) At a high-tech ballistics center managed by National Technical Systems in Camden, Arkansas, HP simulated a gas leak using real explosives that resulted in a very real explosion and datacenter destruction.
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High confidence in computer models of the storms enables more effective evacuation planning.
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Defying concerns that post-9/11 construction would be dominated by concrete bunkers, the designers of new buildings in New York are turning to glass facades.
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After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the federal government and its defense contractors began scarfing up new office space in the Washington area.
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As New York City firefighters struggled to find survivors in the haze and rubble of the World Trade Center collapse, the fire department's chief doctor was thinking about how to keep them safe from toxins in the air.
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At Lawrence Livermore lab in northern  California and other national labs, U.S. scientists are hard at  work devising new inventions to monitor unlikely but horrific  dangers that could stem from future terrorist attacks.
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In the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, government officials and industry leaders talked excitedly about how they expected technology to plug many of the gaps in airport security.
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A NEW York fireman involved in the 9/11 rescue effort today told of his ordeal on board a plane diverted to the UK in a bomb alert.