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JUST A DRILL: NYPD will deploy ‘harmless’ gas into subway in terror response drill
April 26, 2013
The New York City Police Department announced Wednesday that it will
deploy, then track, what it calls “harmless” gases into the city’s
subway system over three non-consecutive days this summer. The plan, to
be enacted in July, will investigate New York’s readiness to handle a
chemical terrorist attack by dispersing the colorless gas and tracing it
as it flows through the city, according to Scientific American. The
test is expected to cost $3.4 million and is scheduled to be carried out
in all five boroughs and dozens of stations on 21 of the city’s 34
subway lines. “The NYPD works for the best but plans for the worst
when it comes to potentially catastrophic attacks such as ones employing
radiological contaminants or weaponized anthrax,” police
commissioner Ray Kelly said in a statement. The police will use roughly
200 detectors to monitor the gas. Dubbed the Subway-Surface Air Flow
Exchange, the test will be the largest of its kind and organized in
cooperation with the energy department’s Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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