Recent arrests by police across Europe that have thwarted planned terrorist attacks have heightened fears that any future attackers will unleash an airborne contaminant such as Ricin, Sarin or mustard gas.
Researchers world wide are now working on the best ways to swiftly ready emergency responders in the event of a bio-terrorism attack and to deal with the repercussions hours and days after the event.
Researchers at the Army High Performance Computing research Centre in Minneapolis are currently working on highly detailed models that depict, up close, how certain airborne particles would snake their way through segments of a particular city, taking into account very specific weather and wind flow.