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- Title
UK rolls out terror-attack plan.
- Authors
Butler, Declan
- Abstract
The article focuses on the launch of the Initial Operational Response (IOR) programme in Great Britain in order to deal with chemical, biological or radiological (CBR) attack as of February 2014. It mentions that the IOR programme will help front-line emergency services in order to deal with CBR victims. It also mentions that the programme is based on the Optimisation through Research of Chemical Incident Decontamination Systems (ORCHIDS) led by the British Health Protection Agency (HPA).
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; WEAPONS of mass destruction; HUMAN services programs; HEALTH Protection Agency (Great Britain); BIOLOGICAL decontamination; RADIOACTIVE decontamination; DECONTAMINATION (From gases, chemicals, etc.); PUBLIC health
- Publication
Nature, 2014, Vol 506, Issue 7487, p139
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/506139a