Chlorine Shown As Terror Hazard
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New York police secretly set up a fake company to demonstrate how easily and anonymously a terrorist could purchase chlorine on the Internet for a deadly chemical strike
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The discovery follows three gas attacks in the past month in which insurgents used truck bombs to deploy chlorine.
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Washington DC, Dec. 15 - The terrorism preparedness the public has seen consists of mock disasters around the country testing reaction to chemical or biological attack.
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A chemical from rocket fuel that has seeped into drinking-water supplies nationwide is safe at higher doses than federal environmental officials had concluded, according to a report released Monday.
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The U.S. military warned Thursday that insurgents are adopting new tactics in a campaign to spread panic after troops uncovered a car bomb factory with propane tanks and chlorine cylinders &#151; possible ingredients for more chemical attacks following three explosions involving chlorine.
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By Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 20--One of the most egregious pieces of unfinished business from 9/11 is the continuing vulnerability of chemical plants to terrorist attack.
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The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that low-level exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid, a chemical used to make Teflon, could pose "a potential risk of developmental and other adverse effects" on human health.
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By REBECCA SMITH  ALL paramedics are being issued with radiation meters and chemical hoods to protect them in the event of a terror attack or radiation leak.
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Preschoolers who witnessed the 2001 terrorist attacks were at high risk of developing lingering problems if they had had a previous frightening experience, new research suggests.
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Weapons of mass destruction, small boats packed with explosives and Islamic radicalization are the greatest terrorist threats facing the country, top U.S. security officials said Monday on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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No chlorine to purify Iraqi water A senior Iraqi government official has said that Baghdad water treatment plants are critically short of chlorine gas which they need to purify public water supplies. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that supplies of the gas are being held up due to fears it might be used as a chemical weapon, and adds that chlorine is vitally necessary to control an ongoing cholera outbreak in Iraq.â¦
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When a train crash spilled deadly chlorine gas in Graniteville, S.C., some workers on the graveyard shift at a textile plant ran into the parking lot. It was the wrong strategy.
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Toxic chlorine pollutants were found at unsafe levels in 40 percent of D.C. tap water samples tested this spring during the water utility's annual chlorine surge, according to a national environmental group's report to be released today.
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Immediate health threats include wounds from stepping on nails and broken glass and dehydration and heatstroke from exposure in hot muggy weather.
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Unsafe levels of toxic chlorine pollutants were found in 40 percent of the District of Columbia tap water samples tested during a spring chlorine surge, according to a study released Thursday.
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Iraqi insurgents have added poisonous chlorine gas to their armory and two bombs using the chemical have killed 12 and injured 200 in a week.
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A terror attack on a tanker delivering liquefied natural gas at a U.S. port could set off a fire so hot it would burn skin and damage buildings nearly a mile away, government scientists say in a report expected to influence where new multibillion-dollar terminals will be built.