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...from a 1979 Soviet accident in Sverdlovsk. Dr. David Walker, chairman of the department of pathology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, was part of a U.S. team that visited Russia in 1992, just before Boris Yeltsin finally acknowledged the escape of anthrax from a bioweapons plant. Confronted with the evidence of an unprecedented 77 infections and 64 deaths, Walker and the others began thinking hard about the biology of anthrax and how doctors might deal with an outbreak. When Bacillus anthracis emerges from inhaled spores, they knew, it grows and multiplies and starts secreting a powerful...
...morning last spring, as Dan Whitener was tying down his single-engine plane at the Martin Campbell Airport in the tiny mining town of Copperhill, Tenn., an unfamiliar airplane landed. Two Middle Eastern-looking men climbed out, and the shorter one quizzed Whitener. "So, tell me about this chemical plant I just flew over...
...American Airlines Flight 11 last month and flew it into the World Trade Center's north tower. "He asked a lot of really crazy questions," recalls Whitener. Among them were inquiries about the dam that spans the nearby Hiwassee River, which runs into the Tennessee River between two nuclear plants. He also asked about Boliden Intertrade, a chemical plant that until last year produced sulfur dioxide and sulfuric acid but now stands empty. After 15 minutes, Atta and his partner climbed back in the plane and took off. Whitener later described the bizarre encounter to his friend John Rutkowsky...
...attractive theory, given that journalists do consider themselves the center of the universe: we'll cover, say, the loss of 38 jobs at Inside.com far more intensely than the loss of 500 jobs at a steel plant. There's just one small problem with the theory. We're talking freaking anthrax here. In a nation already fixated on bioterrorism, any anthrax attack, however small and wherever located, would have started a feeding frenzy, media self-absorption or none...
...night of Saturday, Sept. 15. Helicopters had been seen heading up the Catawba River toward a nuclear power station. Soon two F-16 fighter jets arrived on the scene, and Bryant heard a "tremendous, thunderous noise." A little later, choppers were spotted near the Oconee nuclear plant near Clemson, 90 miles away. Then, shortly after midnight, several more were reported flying over the Savannah River Site, a Department of Energy facility that occupies more than 360 sq. mi. along the border of South Carolina and Georgia. Nuclear waste is disposed of there, and weapons are restocked with tritium. Authorities closed...