Are full-body airport scanners safe?
Two types of full-body scanners
The federal agency in charge of airport security, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), started moving toward full-body scans for airplane passengers after Christmas Day 2009, when a young Nigerian man tried to blow up a plane headed for Detroit with a bomb hidden in his underwear.
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