Volume 1, Issue 4

Editor's Note
September 11, 2001 – Five years have passed since terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and the crash in Pennsylvania. This incident is rivaled by only one other date in American history, December 7, 1941 – the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. [read more...]

An interview with Mike Kluse - Associate Laboratory Director for National Security for PNNL
It has been five years since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. [read more...]

Supporting National Programs to Secure Our Nation
At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, researchers are creating the next generation of tools and technologies to improve the nation's ability to detect and prevent acts of terrorism. [read more...]

Visualization and Analytics Center Paints Picture of Potential Threats
Rising homeland security threats, increasingly sophisticated adversaries and growth of the Internet and computer technologies have heightened the need for tools that can identify, predict and help prevent terrorist attacks. [read more...]

Experts Discuss Models' Role in Better Protecting U.S. Ports and Waterways
How can scientific models help save lives, property and aquatic habitat during a terrorist attack on the nation's ports and rivers? Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) posed this question to scientific modeling and emergency response experts from across the country in a workshop held in July at PNNL's Marine Operations facility in Sequim, Wash. [read more...]

PNNL and HAMMER Continue to Advance Training in the Fight Against Terror
Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are teaching their technical skills to a new group of students—border enforcement officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The Laboratory leads a training program in which officers learn how to identify and halt smuggling of weapons of mass destruction. [read more...]