PREFACE |
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FOREWORD |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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1 NUCLEAR FEARTHE GODZILLA OF ALL FEARS |
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1.1 The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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1.2 Nuclear Fallout in America |
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1.3 WMDs: Witnesses of Mass Destruction |
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1.4 Fear and the Film Industry |
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1.6 Atomic Nature Run Amok |
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1.7 Post-War Nuclear Reactions |
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1.8 The Specter of Cold War |
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1.10 Dr. Strangelove and Learning to Love the Bomb |
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1.11 Nuclear Terror Revisited |
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1.12 Chernobyl's Impact on Contemporary Views of Nuclear Energy |
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1.13 The Myth of the Lone Madman |
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1.14 Fear of an Unknown Atom |
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2 TERRORISM AND NUCLEAR FIRE |
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2.3 Terrorism (Un)Defined |
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2.4 Legal Taxonomy of Terrorism |
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2.5 The Defining Principles of Terrorism |
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2.6 Nation States: Fuel for Nuclear Fire |
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2.7 Global Mass Media: The Oxygen of Terrorism |
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2.8 Extremists Groups: The Spark that Ignites Terrorism |
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2.9 Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Nightmare |
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3 RADIATION AND RADIOACTIVITY CONCEPTS |
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3.1 What, Exactly, Is Radiation? |
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3.2 Units of Radioactivity |
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3.3 The Different Types of Radioactive Decay |
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3.4 Measuring Radioactivity |
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3.5 Environmental Radiation |
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3.6 Radiation from Nuclear Power Plants |
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3.7 The Benefits of Radiation on Health and Medicine |
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3.8 The Benefits of Radiation on Agriculture |
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3.9 The Benefits of Radiation on Industry |
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3.10 The Benefits of Radiation on National Security |
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3.11 The Benefits of Radiological and Nuclear Material on International Security |
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4 NUCLEAR COUNTERMEASURES AND NUCLEAR SECURITY |
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4.1 Security of Radiation Sources |
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4.3 Safety of Radiation Sources |
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4.4 Enforcing International Standards of Safety |
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4.5 Meeting Global Needs for Energy |
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4.6 Difficulties of Radioactive Disposal |
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4.7 A Radiation Role Model |
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4.8 Nuclear Applications to Increase Public Safety and National Security |
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4.9 Current Nuclear and Radiation Countermeasures |
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5 NUCLEAR EVENTS AND INCIDENTS |
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5.1 The Search for Nuclear Substances |
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5.3 Inferring Nuclear Intent |
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5.4 Nuclear Arms in the Wrong Hands |
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5.5 A More Active Defense |
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5.6 Should Diplomacy Fail |
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5.7 A Closer Look at Nuclear Weapons |
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5.9 Nuclear Thermal Force |
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5.11 Radiological Dispersion Devices |
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6 RADIOLOGICAL INCIDENTS MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING |
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6.4 Readying the Response Infrastructure |
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6.5 Evaluating the Medical Countermeasure Enterprise |
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6.6 The Good News: Areas of Improvement |
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6.7 Protective Action Guidelines |
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6.8 The Role of the Military in a Radiological Emergency |
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7 ROLE OF THE FIRST RESPONDER |
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7.1 Structure of the First Response Team's Patterns of Action |
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7.2 Role of the First Response Team |
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7.3 Protection of Responders and the Public |
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7.3.2 Registration of Emergency Response Personnel |
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7.4 Lessons Learned from First Response to Past Emergencies |
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7.5 Manage the Medical Response |
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7.6 Manage Criminal and Terrorist Threats After a Radiological Event |
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7.7 Launching the First Response |
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7.9 Members of the First Response Team |
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7.10 Preliminary Assessment and Response |
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7.11 Emergency Response Team |
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7.12 Incident Commander Action Guide |
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7.12.1 Observe and Assess |
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7.12.2 Save Lives and Prevent Escalation |
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7.12.3 Extend the Response |
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7.13 Resource Coordinator Action Guide |
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7.14 Fire Departments Action Guide |
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7.15 Emergency Medical Service Action Guide |
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7.16 Law EnforcementSecurity Team Action Guide |
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7.17 Forensic Evidence Management Team Action Guide |
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7.18 Public Information Officer Action Guide |
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7.19 Crisis Communication Tips |
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7.20 Local Hospital Action Guide |
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7.21 National EOC Action Guide |
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7.22 First Responder Monitor Action Guide |
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8.1 Assess Hazard and Establish Security Area |
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8.2 Personnel Protection Guidelines |
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8.3 Public Protection Guidelines |
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8.5 Monitor the Public and Responders |
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8.6 Public Decontamination |
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8.7 Response Contamination Control |
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8.8 Monitoring and Decontamination of Vehicles and Equipment |
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8.9 Field Triage for Mass Casualties |
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9 MEDICAL TREATMENT OF RADIOLOGICAL INJURIES |
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9.1 The Radiological Effects of RDDs |
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9.2 Radioactivity and Its Impact on the Body |
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9.3 Symptoms and Syndromes |
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9.5 Signs of Dangerous Radiation Dosages |
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9.6 Treatments for Radiation Exposure |
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9.7 Post-Radiation Procedures |
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9.8 Psychological Side Effects |
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9.9 Psychological First Aid |
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10 CLEANUP AND DECONTAMINATION AFTER A RADIOLOGICAL INCIDENT |
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10.1 Differences between Chemical, Biological, and Radiological |
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10.2 Decontamination Differences for Fallout and a RDD |
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10.3 Who will be in Charge of Cleanup and Decontamination? |
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10.4 Radiological Cleanup Overview and Objectives |
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10.5 Radiological Cleanup Decision Making |
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10.6 Initial Cleanup Scoping |
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10.7 Stakeholder Outreach and Stakeholder Working Group |
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10.8 Evaluation of Cleanup Options |
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10.9 Specific Guidelines for Cleanup and Decontamination |
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10.10 The "Do Nothing" Strategy |
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10.11 Physical Removal Strategy |
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10.12 Physical Entrapment Strategy |
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10.13 Chemical Decontamination Strategy |
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10.14 Use of Isotope Dilution for Decontamination |
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10.15 Priorities for Decontamination |
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11 CONCLUSIONS |
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11.1 Nuclear Terror: Are We Prepared Internationally? |
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11.2 Who is Internationally Responsible for Nuclear Countermeasures? |
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11.3 Nuclear Terror: Are We Prepared Nationally? |
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11.4 What We Know About the Inevitable |
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APPENDIX A RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION MONITORING |
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A.2 Types of Nuclear Detection Equipment |
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A.5 Surface Contamination Meters |
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A.6 Airborne Contamination Meters and Gas Monitors |
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A.7 Basic Radiation Instrument Components |
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A.8 Ionization Chambers as Gas-Filled Detectors |
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A.9 Proportional Counters and Gas Amplification |
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A.10 Geiger-Muller Counters and Detector Output |
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A.11 Practical Ionization Chamber Instruments |
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A.12 Practical Proportional Counters |
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A.13 Practical Geiger-Muller Counters |
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A.14 Scintillation Counters |
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A.15 Practical Bulk Scintillation Counters |
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A.16 Practical Scintillation Counter Contamination Monitors |
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A.17 Solid State Detectors |
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A.18 Practical Solid State Detectors |
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A.19 Testing Dose Rate Meters |
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A.20 Procedures for Using a Dose Rate Meter |
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A.21 Testing and Calibration of Surface Contamination Meters |
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A.22 Use of a Surface Contamination Meter |
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A.23 Procedures for Using a Surface Contamination Meter |
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A.24 Special Surface Contamination Monitoring Techniques |
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A.25 The Measurement of Airborne Contamination |
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A.26 Criteria for the Selection of Monitoring Instruments |
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APPENDIX B LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS |
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APPENDIX C RADIOLOGICAL TERMS |
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APPENDIX D RADIOLOGICAL ATTACKRADIOLOGICAL DISPERSAL DEVICESINCIDENT PLANNING GUIDE |
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APPENDIX E FEDERAL AGENCIES GOVERNING THE IMMEDIATE RESPONSE TO A RADIOLOGICAL EVENT |
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E.1.4 Headquarters Planning and Preparedness |
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E.4.2 Coordinating Agencies |
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E.5 Key Federal Radiological ResourcesAssets |
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E.6 Concept of Operations |
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E.9 Federal Capabilities and Assets |
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APPENDIX F POTENTIAL ISOTOPES LIKELY TO BE USED IN A RADIOLOGICAL DISPERSION DEVICE |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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INDEX |
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