A plot to blow up transatlantic airplanes with liquid explosives was uncovered in London in August 06, and pressure has increased to find new ways to detect liquids. Now, Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate is teaming with scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop a possible solution.
These days, a drive across a bridge is not always a pleasure cruise. Mindful of the war on terrorism, it can often be a cautious experience. This summer, the possibility of sabotage was quickly examined"”then dismissed"”when the I35W bridge tragically collapsed in Minneapolis.
The world is a different place beyond the ocean horizon, where thousands of merchant ships ply the all the world's waterways. How do these ships come by their cargos, and in what untamed ports? Along the journey, pry open a container and what will you find? If you're not sure, that spells danger.
"A hard rain's a-gonna fall," Dylan sang. But when rain and storm surges fall on lands protected by weak levees, this means trouble"¦big trouble. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were devastating reminders of this frightening fact. How then can we limit trouble when a levee breaches or, better yet, prevent such a break from ever happening again?
Down in the green, rolling hills and farmlands of Kentucky, Darrell Taulbee can often be found mixing up a batch of his homegrown fertilizer. But Taulbee isn't looking to grow a better Big Boy or distill a smoother bourbon, he tells us. Funded by the University of Kentucky and the Homeland Security's Science & Technology Directorate (S&T), he sets his sights on something far more sinister. Darrell Taulbee putters with this stuff to make sure another Oklahoma bombing never happens again.
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