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Science 20 March 1992:
Vol. 255. no. 5051, pp. 1531 - 1537
DOI: 10.1126/science.255.5051.1531
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Explosives Detection for Aviation Security

ANTHONY FAINBERG 1

1 Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, on leave from the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC 20510

The threat of terrorism against commercial aviation has received much attention in the past few years. In response, new ways to detect explosives and to combine techniques based on different phenomena into integrated security systems are being developed to improve aviation security. Several leading methods for explosives and weapons detection are presented.


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