Shortage Slows a Program to Detect Nuclear Bombs


Shortage Slows a Program to Detect Nuclear Bombs -- Matthew L. Wald  -- New York Times  -- November 22, 2009
Surveillance Technology

The Department of Homeland Security has spent $230 million to develop better technology for detecting smuggled nuclear bombs but has had to stop deploying the new machines because the United States has run out of Helium-3.

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