# Drug dogs used as terrorist prevention dogs?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 12, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-dogs-used-as-terrorist-prevention-dogs/154609 "2003-02-12T17:42:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-dogs-used-as-terrorist-prevention-dogs/154609/1 "2003-02-12T17:42:29Z")

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I was just wondering, if we had dog that can detect such agents as nerve gas. If the dog were to sniff a particular potent agent, wouldn’t it kill the dog? (Maybe that would be the tip off). But really, a lot of these chemical and biological weapons are nasty. How would you train a dog to detect these without killing them? And do we have such dogs? Maybe they have figured a way to do this. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.