The SNS successfully deployed 12-hour " push packages " to New York City and Washington , D.C. , in response to 9/11 , and Managed Inventory ( MI ) to numerous locations in response to the anthrax terrorist attacks of 2001 . These push packages are warehoused in a dozen classified , nondescript facilities under 24-hour contractor armed guard protection . Geographically situated to allow rapid delivery anywhere in the Continental U.S. , material deploys by unmarked trucks and/or airplanes within 12 hours of the receipt of a request by the CDC . The U.S. Marshals Service provides armed security from these federal sites to local destinations . The SNS has adequate vaccines and countermeasures in its stockpile , including 300 million smallpox treatment courses and enough anthrax vaccine to handle a three-city incident
anthrax terrorist attacks of 2001
2001 anthrax attacks
Strategic National Stockpile