Though efforts to develop light detection and ranging (lidar) as an alarm against a bioterrorist attack have been found wanting, I would emphasize a different but very important way in which lidar could powerfully contribute to national security against bioterrorism, Lidar could uniquely provide a solution to a significant aspect of the bio terrorism problem, and in so doing ultimately help address the old, original problem of serving as a bioterrorism attack alarm.
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