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DOES IT WORK? Yes, but it has to be turned on when you think there is poison gas in the area, which may be too late...
...from Marietta College's petroleum-engineering department have returned home at their parents' request. Mayor Matthews has gone on the radio to tell people to return to normal. But he also tries to be realistic. "They can fly a plane into the World Trade Center. If they want to poison Marietta's water supply, we're not going to be able to stop them...
...vulnerable to those who would abuse its liberties. As a result, preparation appears to be the best means of crisis prevention. The U.S. must gather as much information as possible about the biological weapon stores of other nations, train infection control teams and secure stores of vaccines and poison antidotes. Simulated scenarios like “Dark Winter,” rehearsed on a broader scale, can help the U.S. improve its response to a possible attack. An efficient and effective public health care infrastructure will also be crucial. Physicians and emergency care workers should be trained to recognize known...
...having our breakdowns, large and small. A woman accidentally took her dog's allergy medicine and had to call poison control. An Atlanta flight attendant was so afraid to fly, he called in a bomb threat to his own airline. One woman who escaped her World Trade Center office was worried she was not feeling things enough; so she got a tattoo on her wrist, a survivor's code, to help her remember what pain felt like. The tattoo reads...
Ranging in sophistication from rat poison to powerful nerve toxins, chemical weapons are by far the most popular among terrorists. That's because the raw materials are relatively easy to get, and the finished products don't have to be kept alive. But chemical weapons aren't well suited for inflicting widespread damage. Unlike germs, chemical agents can't reproduce, observes Tucker. "You have to generate a lethal concentration in the air, which means you need very large quantities." To kill a sizable number of people with sarin, for example, which can be absorbed through the skin as a liquid...