Why isn't this deployed in Iraq right now....?
I agree. This should be expedited.
Why isn't this deployed in our airports right now?
This technology has been sitting around for a year without implementation?
All sensitive areas should have these scanners set up and running at major events..
It falls under the classification of "national security"...
Because it takes a great deal of research, engineering, time, and money to reduce what is essentially a quick and dirty science experiment into a rugged, reliable, portable, instrument. Designing such things is what I do for a living, and it is complex and time consuming.
The article is full of "golly-gee", "gee-whiz", "look how neat and all the other scientists missed it", when in fact the technique is well-known and used for other things. The thing that made this possible is that the group who observed it had a new, more sensitive detector that previous groups who had looked at the effect did not have. Very probably that detector requires liquid nitrogen (or helium) cooling, and is nicely practical for use in a research lab. Getting it to work in the Iraqi desert at midsummer is a whole other animal.
Iraq? Can you imagine the Palestinians horror at being on the wrong end of beeber stuned like that?