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Preparing for an urban WMD attack
SAN FRANCISCO--"Weapons of mass destruction multi-agency exercise."
If I've ever covered an event with a more stark title, I can't think of it.
But there I was Saturday morning, along with several hundred firefighters, police officers, Army National Guard personnel, and members of other local, state, and federal agencies for a large-scale exercise designed to help train all these emergency responders how to deal with a major terrorist attack involving suspected chemical weapons or other bio-hazards.
As a bulletin announcing the exercise put it, the goal was for the agencies' personnel to "identify the … Read more
