BiodefenseEducation.org: Simulation

Simulation - The Battle to Stop Bird Flu

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:28:10 GMT

Wired - A virtual pandemic hits New Mexico: Inside the Los Alamos weapons lab, massive computer simulations unleash disease and track its course, 6 billion people at a time. A look at how simulation is aiding biodefense efforts.

Simulation - Games Tackle Disaster Training

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:57:26 GMT

Wired - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is funding a series of computer games to help prepare health workers and other first responders facing bioterror attacks, nuclear accidents and pandemics.

Simulation - Video game prepares health workers for disasters

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:53:59 GMT

News.Medical.Net - A video game that simulates biological, chemical, radiological and natural disasters in a major metropolitan area, developed by a team from the University of Illinois at Chicago, will be used to prepare public health workers and emergency responders for real life emergencies.

Simulation - Natural Disasters Perfunctory Concerns

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:35:21 GMT

Washington Post - William Arkin looks at the latest wargame played by the Northern Command, which postulated an anthrax attack against targets in Alaska.

Simulation - NYC tests for biochemical attack

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:08:42 GMT

BBC - Officials in New York City have begun conducting a large-scale anti-terror test aimed at simulating the effects of a major biochemical attack.

Simulation - Computer Simulators Test Terror Situations

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:57:34 GMT

Washington Post - Deep inside the cave-like laboratories of the legendary research center that created the atomic bomb, scientists have begun work on a Manhattan Project of a different sort.

In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, they have been constructing the most elaborate computer models of the United States ever attempted. There are virtual cities inhabited by millions of virtual individuals who go to work, shopping centers, soccer games and anywhere else their real life counterparts go. And there are virtual power grids, oil and gas lines, water pipelines, airplane and train systems, even a virtual Internet.

The scientists build them. And then they destroy them.

Simulation - The Netherlands to test readiness for bio-terrorist attacks

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:41:49 GMT

Radio Netherlands - The Dutch government feels it would be a good thing for the Netherlands to have its own large-scale exercise in dealing with bio-terrorist attacks, along the lines of Atlantic Storm.

Simulation - Kaua'i exercise targets bioterrorism

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 08:35:48 GMT

Honolulu Advertiser - Residents faced a plague of bogus disasters this week as emergency crews from across the state and parts of the Mainland trained on Kaua'i for a series of disturbingly realistic bioterrorism events.

Simulation - Analysis of drills in N.J., Conn. expected to take months

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:32:55 GMT

Associated Press - Federal officials in Washington said they learned a tremendous amount from the massive antiterrorism drill TOPOFF 3 conducted in New Jersey and Connecticut but would wait until all the data have been analyzed before making public what went right and wrong in the weeklong exercise.

Simulation - US plays $16 million 'war game'

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:38:45 GMT

The Times - The United States was today in the grip of the biggest terror exercise in its history as two states flanking New York came under a simulated chemical and biological attack. British intelligence agencies are engaged in providing detailed support for the $16 million operation, which began yesterday and will draw on a cast of more than 10,000 over the next four days.

More from the BBC - Terror drill tests US hospitals.

Simulation - U.S. Holds Biggest Terror Simulation to Test Response

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:21:27 GMT

Bloomberg - Exercise TOPOFF 3 begins.

Simulation - TOPOFF 3 Exercising National Preparedness

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:05:01 GMT

Department of Homeland Security - Top Officials 3 (TOPOFF 3), the most comprehensive terrorism response exercise ever conducted in the United States, will occur from April 4-8th, and will involved the United Kingdom and Canada.

Simulation - If Smallpox Strikes Portland ...

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:24:18 GMT

Scientific American - "Episims" unleashes virtual plagues in real cities to see how social networks spread disease. That knowledge might help stop epidemics.

Simulation - Facing up to the bioterror threat

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:02:43 GMT

New York Times - Analysis of the Atlantic Storm bioterrorism wargame from the co-directors of the Atlantic Storm simulation exercise.

Simulation - BioWar games serious at CMU

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:40:38 GMT

Pittsburgh Tribune Review - A model for simulating the effects of biological weapons on US cities is being refined at Carnegie Mellon University.

Simulation - Nations vulnerable to bioterror

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:18:36 GMT

Pittsburgh Post Gazette - More on exercise Atlantic Storm.

Los Angeles Times - Smallpox Exercise Poses Big Question: Is Anyone Ready?

Radio Netherlands - Atlantic Storm...on a tabletop and Sombre conclusions follow 'Atlantic Storm'.

Simulation - Bioterrorism War Game Shows Lack Of Readiness

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:44:20 GMT

Washington Post - A look at Exercise Atlantic Storm, a wargame that postulates worldwide simultaneous attacks by terrorists using smallpox as a weapon, and the grim results.

Simulation - Playing for Keeps

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:54:12 GMT

GovExec - A look at the use of simulation as a training tool to teach the proper responses to a biological, chemical, or radiological attack.

Simulation - Ridge, Governors Examine Terror Scenarios

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:01:09 GMT

Associated Press - Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge gave governors a taste of terror Monday, playing out a simulated tabletop bioterrorism attack and likely responses - from trying to keep the public informed and calm to carrying out massive vaccinations.

Simulation - Shining Light on "Dark Winter"

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:51:32 GMT

[Clinical Infectious Diseases] - Lessons learned from Dark Winter, a senior-level exercise in 2001 that simulated a bioterrorist smallpox attack on the United States.

Simulation - Bioterrorism Drill's Lessons

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:12:45 GMT

Washington Post - Last year's 'Topoff 2' bioterrorism exercise in the US showed severe communications problems amongst responders.

Simulation - Department of Homeland Security Releases Summary Conclusions From National Exercise

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:11:43 GMT

Department of Homeland Security - Lessons learned from last year's 'Topoff 2' bioterrorism exercise.

Simulation - Exercise Global Mercury Post Exercise Report

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:55:40 GMT

Global Health Security Initiative - The formal lessons learned from last year's global bioterrorism exercise Global Mercury. (In PDF format)

Simulation -WHO Assails Wealthy Nations on Bioterror

Michael P. D'Alessandro — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:46:15 GMT

Washington Post - Lessons learned from last year's global bioterrorism exercise Global Mercury.