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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- Copyright: RAND Corporation
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- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 198
- List Price: $28.00
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- ISBN/EAN: 0-8330-3473-1
- Document Number: MR-1731-SF
- Year: 2003
- Series: Monograph Reports
Contents
Summary PDF
Preface
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
Supplemental
Supplementary Materials PDF
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