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Pentagon: Future of Homemade Bombs Is High-Tech

The homemade bombs that insurgents use in Iraq and Afghanistan are low-tech efforts, making them hard to find and stop, and cheap enough to spread world wide. But the Pentagon's bomb squad doesn't see that lasting. Its four-year plan envisions fighting improvised explosive devices that are much more sophisticated, using "flexible electronics," "microbial fuel cells," and "highly energetic and... moreThe homemade bombs that insurgents use in Iraq and Afghanistan are low-tech efforts, making them hard to find and stop, and cheap enough to spread world wide. But the Pentagon's bomb squad doesn't see that lasting. Its four-year plan envisions fighting improvised explosive devices that are much more sophisticated, using "flexible electronics," "microbial fuel cells," and "highly energetic and molecular materials." view page