Click to play videoGuwahati: A small museum on explosives in Guwahati, the first of its kind in India, could be a treasure trove of information that might help combat terror.
A tour of the museum inside the Forensic Science Laboratory in Guwahati gives a glimpse of the arms and ammunition used by terrorists.
The museum has a programmable time delay device (PTD) used by terrorists both in the North-East and Jammu and Kashmir.
"Nowadays until and unless you know these things you cannot fight terror," says Dr Padmapani Mahanta, Joint Director, FSL, Assam.
The data in the museum could also be a treasure trove for a National Investigative Agency.
The RDX, PTD, TNT explosives, grenades, gelatine sticks, detonators all in the collection have been gathered from all previous terror attacks in the North -East since 1980.
"In our museum we will keep all the recent research done in the field of explosives. So anybody can come to us and get the data on this from across the world," says Dr Mahanta.
It is a resource base that seems most required, at a time when terror and technology are travelling together and detection has moved on from test tubes to Raman Scopes
So the transition of explosives from the days of book bombs to a classic time bomb which could be timed up to 24 hours, to RDX, to programmable timely delays that could be timed for 194 days shows how terror has travelled over the years and it's this knowledge that is essential for effective counter terror.
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