These proceedings contain the presentations of a NATO-Russian - vanced
Research Workshop (ARW) held at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical
Technology (ICT) near Karlsruhe, Germany, attended also by most of the
members of the "Explosive Detection Working Group" (EDWG) of the
"Advisory Panel on Security-Related Civil Science and Technology". The
ARW, approved by the NATO Science Committee, is the ?fth NATO- Workshop
during the last 3 years dealing with the detection of explosives in
connection with counter-terrorism. The special goal of this workshop was
the exchange of knowledge and experiences in the special ?eld of
"Stand-Off Detection" and to ?x the "State of the Art" in this ?eld of
research. At the end of the workshop proposals of Research & Development
were presented (but not included in the proceedings), which were eva-
ated by the present members of the EDWG during the following day of the
workshop. One of the ?rst measures to counter the threat will be to stop
the transport of illicit materials, that means in our case to detect
explosive charges before they are initiated by terrorists.