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 molecular materials." The post Pentagon: Future of Homemade Bombs Is High-Tech appeared first on WIRED.