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Mobile teams on hunt for atomic threats

In the days and months following Sept. 11, helicopters hovered more intently than usual over New York City`s docks and bridges – and, in Washington, over the Capitol and White House. They looked like ordinary helicopters, but inside them scientists from the national nuclear-weapons laboratories were scanning the landscape with invisible beams that they hoped would detect the radioactive elements of a terrorist`s nuclear bomb. Full Story