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Article: Las Vegas airport chosen as weapon-detection test site.
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- Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)
- Article date:
- December 29, 2004
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Byline: Chris Jones
Dec. 29--McCarran International Airport will soon become one of the nation's few testing points for technologies the federal government hopes will greatly reduce terrorists' ability to smuggle bombs and other weapons aboard commercial aircraft.
The Transportation Security Administration last week told its regional directors that 16 "model airports" have been selected from a pool of more than 70 applicants to further test new explosive trace portals and/or X-ray backscatter devices.
Las Vegas will initially receive two explosive trace portals, said a Dec. 22 letter written by TSA's Jim Blair, who was McCarran's security ...