An EMPHASIS on Emerging Chemical Intelligence

摘要

This year, 2016, has seen two of the most devastating attacks on airports in history. Landside incidents in Brussels and Istanbul inflicted damage and incited terror through the exploitation of deficiencies in airport security that, while well known by those in the industry, have infrequently been targeted with such skill and devastation. There are multiple layers of security at airports after (and in some places before) check-in that provide travellers with confidence that they are safe. But performing security prior to traditional security checkpoints, is more challenging. Simply moving screening to airport approaches and entrances prior to check-in is likely to simply create another location in which people collectively aggregate thereby providing an equally attractive target to what we currently experience. It seems apparent that security screening as it is currently done is unlikely to be a solution to this problem - but does a solution exist and is there a way that our significant development of detection technology can be exploited towards this end?