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Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks
Individual preparedness is an important element of our nation's strategy for homeland security. This report adopts a scenario-driven approach that provides a rigorous way to identify actions-linked specifically to terrorist attacks-individuals can take to protect their health and safety. The result is an individual's strategy across four types of terrorist attacks-chemical, radiological, nuclear, and biological-consisting of overarching goals and simple and directive response and preparatory actions. The actions are appropriate regardless of likelihood of an attack, scale of attack, or government alert level; designed to be sensitive to potential variations; and defined in terms of simple rules that should be easy for individuals to adopt.
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Pages: 198
ISBN/EAN: 0-8330-3473-1
Contents
Summary PDF
All Prefatory Materials PDF
Chapter One:
Introduction PDF
Chapter Two:
Scenario Approach to Developing an Individual's Strategy PDF
Chapter Three:
An Individual's Strategy PDF
Chapter Four:
Conclusions PDF
Appendix A:
Catastrophic Terrorism Scenarios PDF
Appendix B:
Emergency Guidelines PDF
Appendix C:
Focus Group Methods and Results PDF
Appendix D:
A Review of the Risk-Perception and Risk Communication Literature PDF
Supplementary Materials PDF
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