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Medicines to combat anthrax, smallpox and the botulism toxin were all bought as part of a £15million spending drive by the Department of Health.
Medicines to combat anthrax, smallpox and botulism were stockpiled by the UK after the 9/11 terrorist atrocities amid fears of a nuclear, biological or chemical attack, newly released documents show.
Stormont civil servants were involved in urgent contingency planning for the possibility that the region could be targeted.
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There were calls for decontamination units to operate at capacity while protective clothing and supplies of antidotes, needles and syringes must be ‘built up’, top civil servant urged