Could British invention foil terror bombs?

I find crazy the amount of resources we deploy to fight something:<p><pre><code> - that causes little deaths compared to most diseases or social issues. - cost little compared to most economical or educational issues. - has little long term consequences on the country compared to internal and external policies, laws, politics and visions; - is a direct consequence of social, economical and educational issues and a by product of policies, laws, politics and visions. </code></pre> But what&#x27;s astonishing me the most is the fact that a lot of people don&#x27;t see this and just freak out, despite that almost all of them have never been in direct contact with it or suffer direct consequences from it.

I don&#x27;t know if this device works, but this is just wrong:<p>&gt;&quot;I&#x27;m sorry to say, but the Brussels attack, this would have instantly sorted out the terrorists before they came into the terminal, and similarly the concert in Paris,&quot; he says. &quot;If it had been on the doors there, it would have stopped people getting in.&quot;<p>The terrorists who attacked the Bataclan didn&#x27;t arrive as simple concert goers, they had AK-47s and shot their way in.

&quot;First, a microscopic amount of Semtex 1A high explosive is dabbed onto a T-shirt. To the naked eye, it is almost invisible - but from a large, red, metal box mounted on a portable steel trolley an ultra-violet laser beam flickers on to the white cotton surface of the garment. Immediately, a warning flashes up on the display monitor.&quot;<p>So you would be able to cause disruption AND get innocents locked up by simply covertly dabbing innocents in a crowd.

People who work in the mining industry are going to be in for a &quot;fun&quot; time.

1. How hard is to create a process to fully clean terrorists and their equipment from residue ?<p>2. Is it possible to create a way to make many people catch this residue ?

No.<p>Now to read the article.

If this were to be deployed, I wonder what the comparison between the number of people that would be killed, assaulted, strip searched, scared, delayed etc. by false positives vs. terrorism