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California Univ. Researchers See Little Cancer Risk From Backscatter AIT Systems

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Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

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By Calvin Biesecker New research by a professor and student at the Univ. of California-San Francisco (UCSF) and the Univ. of California-Berkeley respectively suggests that the risks of people getting cancer by going through backscatter X-ray-based whole body imagers at the nation's airports is so low that there is no reason for concern. The radiation doses the machines subject a person to "are low--extremely low," Rebecca Smith-Bindman, M.D., a professor of radiology at UCSF, said in a statement this week.…

Congress

Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

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Congress

Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

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Budd And Shaheen Bill Would Authorize 329 F-15EX Fighters

Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), have introduced the Airpower Acceleration Act, which would authorize multi-year procurements of […]

Congress

HASC’s Wittman Sees ‘Challenging’ Push For $350B In Reconciliation Funds, Wants Sustained Defense Increase

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