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ensure accuracy. Terrorism and the Chemical Infrastructure:
Protecting People and Reducing Vulnerabilities vides other
examples of how the chemical infrastructure responds to
disruption. For example, cooperative agreements between liquid
hydrogen producers were activated to ensure that strategic needs
for this cryogenic material were met. Even the worst accidents
on record (Bhopal, Toulouse, Texas City) did not result in a
situation in which the supply of the chemical or fertilizer in
question could not be made available in a short time.
Agricultural chemicals and pharmaceuticals are the areas most
likely to be impacted by single suppliers of specialty
chemicals. However, major herbicides and fungicides have
alternatives that perform as well or almost as well, so that
normal agricultural practice can continue should the supply of