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Fort research may produce tools to help resolve hostage situations
| By John A. Harnes
COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU WALL TOWNSHIP - In Peru this week, well-armed
leftist guerrillas have taken hundreds of guests at the Japanese ambassador's
residence hostage and are threatening to kill them one by one if their
demands are not met.
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tage situations if the authorities were able to detect, through the
wails, where people were standing in a room, he said.
"(Kronenberg's) preliminary results look good," Groeber said. " If you can do it with a low enough dose of radiation) to be safe, it could be very useful. That is only one of several innovative research projects now being worked on inside the Army. research laboratories at Camp Evans. Another project involves research on an imaging system that eventually may replace the CAT scan. "There is plenty of medical research under way here to make the treatment of cancer less expensive," said Kronenberg, who has worked for the Army at Camp Evans for about 43 years. Kronenberg said eventually his re-search may allow for the development of equipment that will serve the same |
purpose of a CAT scanner.
Instead of costing about $9 million, the new devices could cost as little as $100,000, and they would be much more simple to operate, he said. The labs also are working on a project to use neutron particles to help detect buried land mines, a major concern of the U.S. military. As an example, an estimated 1.5 million to 4 million mines were tered throughout Bosnia and Croatia, which have posed, a threat to both civilians and the NATO, peacekeeping forces there. The Army is interested in developing equipment that will improve the ability of U.S. forces to find buried mines in order to reduce injuries and deaths. Kronenberg said his research work is very promising for all three projects. The technical work involved, however, in developing practical devices based on his research will completed by engineers. |
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