In addition to all the other exotic fumes roiling around the subway, the NYPD will this summer release some nice, “harmless” gases into several stations in order to test for “risks posed by airborne contaminants, including chemical, biological and radiological (CBR) weapons,” the department announced today.
“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 Raymond W. Kelly said in a statement. The airflow tests will be performed in partnership with the energy department’s Brookhaven National Laboratory using perfluorocarbon tracer gases (PFTs), which, though alarmingly named, are apparently benign. (Wikipedia tells us the gases are regularly used to map oil reserves and, awesomely, to track ransom money following kidnappings.) Continue reading “NYPD To Inject Totally Harmless Gas Into Subway This Summer”

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