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Tuesday, May 14, 2002

"ANTI-TERROR: Sandia enlists MEMS sensors to fight terrorism"
On Sept. 11, 2001, a think tank at Sandia National Laboratories started assessing its advanced technologies against the threat of terrorism. In response to that study, Sandia recently funded a program to counter terrorist threats with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) � not only to sense dangerous chemical, biological and nuclear agents, but also to identify and track the danger itself � the terrorists.

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Story in EE Times: http://eet.com/at/news/OEG20020514S0033