The program was fairly inexpensive, using dogs that had washed out of seeing-eye training but were calm and obedient-fine for bomb detection.

"He had no training in bomb detection or in defusing bombs," she said.

Every member of the group had completed a rigorous six-month training schedule that included bomb detection and demolition, trap detection, tracking, and general woodsmanship.

Today, the Bomb Squad has two fully equipped response vehicles and the most sophisticated bomb detection, disruption and protective equipment available.

Because of the enhanced methods terrorists use to hide the odor of explosives, dogs have increasingly been used for bomb detection.

Nuclear emergency search teams, which are trained in bomb detection and dismantling, should be ready to accompany such military operations.

Even the strongest airline boosters admit that almost no real progress has been made on bomb detection.

These dogs are capable of achieving over a 98% success rate in bomb detection.

Earlier, Geordi and I were testing the ship's new bomb detection and transport protocols.

Meeting yesterday and today in Washington, a National Academy of Sciences committee is evaluating the aviation agency's research effort on bomb detection.