Airborne Terrorist Attack Study To Be Conducted In Subways By NYPD, Brookhaven Laboratory
April 25th, 2013Via: Huffington Post:
A multimillion-dollar airflow study will be conducted this summer to help authorities better understand the risks of airborne terrorist attacks on New York City and its subway system, including those posed by chemical, biological and radiological weapons.
The NYPD and experts from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory will conduct the tests in July. The Subway-Surface Air Flow Exchange study, or S-SAFE, is funded by a $3.4-million transit security grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The study, according to a statement released Wednesday by NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, is “the first of its scale to study airflow in a dense, complex urban environment both below and above-ground.” Researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with other meteorologists and engineers, will assist scientists from BNL as they “track the movement of harmless tracer gases” through the urban atmosphere — monitoring that movement through about 200 air-sampling tracking devices placed both at street-level and in the subway system.
Presumably, the key phrase in the following statement must be “of its scale”:
“the first of its scale to study airflow in a dense, complex urban environment both below and above-ground.”
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* June 1966: The U.S. Army’s Special Operations Division dispenses Bacillus subtilis var niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million people were exposed when Army operatives dropped light bulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.
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