Word: subway
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...America, subway bombs have been around longer than parking meters. Back when terrorists were called "radicals," in 1927, two explosions blasted through two midtown New York City stations late one August night, injuring 12. The bombs went off 10 minutes apart; one was strong enough to rip open the sidewalk on the street above. The city lunged into action. All 14,000 police officers were put on bomb duty to protect the city's water supply and public buildings, reported a New YorkTimes article from the time. Scores of New Yorkers carrying bundles were stopped and searched...
...London's transit system was wracked by four bombs, New York and other U.S. cities responded again with a mighty show of force. The Coast Guard escorted Staten Island ferryboats. The chief of the New York City police department promised there would be an officer on every rush hour subway train "for the foreseeable future." In Washington, cops clutching MP5 submachine guns strode through subway cars, and Capitol police searched tour buses...
...blasts in London provided a disheartening lesson: crude bomb attacks can kill dozens, even with 6,000 cameras in the subway system and a populace taught by I.R.A. violence to report suspicious bags. But just because Americans can't prevent all bombings doesn't mean they should do nothing--or everything, in feverish, sporadic security binges. "We should all take a deep breath," says Stephen Flynn, a homeland-security expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "There is an ongoing threat, and we need a sustained level of involvement...
Since the 1995 sarin-gas attacks in the Tokyo subway and the 2004 train bombings in Madrid, some U.S. cities have quietly made smart improvements to their transit systems. Hundreds of police are now equipped with handheld radiation detectors. They do flag the occasional chemotherapy patient, leading to at least a couple of unfortunate strip searches in New York City, but that means the devices are working...
...offense. Well before the London attacks, many cities had been recruiting riders as watchdogs. IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, posters remind passengers in New York City and Los Angeles. Last week Mayor Richard Daley deputized the people of Chicago: "If someone is wearing a winter coat in the subway, if you see someone dropping a package, it's better to call 911. That's all you have...