The New York Police Department has take unprecedented measures to develop emergency plans if the city is attacked with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. This according to a report in the New York Times.

The city has been working with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop equipment that can automatically detect and monitor a biological attack.

The city’s health department has developed a plan to open 200 sites to give emergency vaccinations to the city’s 8 million residents in the case of an attack.

And the city recently changed its health code to allow police to detain anyone who is suspected of having been exposed to a deadly infectious pathogen.