Sensor network targets terror threats

Planned U.S. sensor network targets terror threats

... "Against the backdrop of the war on terrorism, an expanding group of government researchers is at work on a nationwide sensor network that someday could provide a real-time early-warning system for a wide array of chemical, biological and nuclear threats across the United States. Drafts of the objectives and milestones for the sensor network project are already circulating among key scientists at national labs and within an emerging technology branch inside the newly formed Department of Homeland Security that is coordinating the effort. " ...