Publication

In this work, the authors probe the current understanding of degradation of biological weapons agents in the environment and investigate its implications for terrorism response. In Section 2,they summarize the state of the science on biological weapons agent degradation in the environment. Section 3 quantitatively investigates the time behavior of different decay models. They also compare the hazard areas predicted by the use of each model in a release simulation. Finally, Section 4 provides a further discussion of the implications of this work for terrorism emergency response planning.