US defence contractor looks for quantum leap in radar research | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited

US defence contractor looks for quantum leap in radar research | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited: "They designed an exploding cigar to kill Fidel Castro and hired fortune-tellers to fight the cold war. Now the US military is taking its war on terror where even Albert Einstein feared to tread - into the baffling world of quantum mechanics. Lockheed Martin, a main US defence contractor, thinks it can exploit research on the fringes of theoretical physics to build the ultimate radar, which could see through anything, from buildings to solid earth."