This text is oriented toward planning police operations in the public sector, but will be usable by other public officials as well as some private sector police operations. It addresses police threat assessment of, vulnerability assessment to, defense against and response to attacks by special weapons of mass destruction in a civilian setting. These include chemical, biological and radiological attacks. It begins with a review of the policy and legal issues pertaining to special weapons and of the pertinent counter-terrorist response considerations discussed in the author¹s other book, POLICE ANALYSIS AND PLANNING FOR VEHICULAR BOMBINGS. It continues with assessment of the various types of special weapons of mass destruction and the terrorist¹s ability to make and use them, a historical review of significant incidents for each of the major subcategories of weapons, the limitations of police response operations in the United States, and defense response to this form of attack. It concludes with commentary on actions that may be needed if this threat continues to develop in the United States. Hopefully, this text will be of benefit to those officers and officials that have never had to confront this type of problem, and will help build the skill and psychological preparation for battle that prevents the attack and enables effective response.
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The counterterrorism policy of the United States has been structured by a combination of three spheres of influence, the United Nations, various international agreements, and the Constitutional structure of the United States as discussed in Police Analysis and Planning for Vehicular Bombings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nervous system within minutes, vent pit, common defense forces, vehicle bomb, survival zone, decontamination operations, radiation weapon, terrorist group use, contaminated patients, unorganized militia, destructive device, radiological attacks, radiological weapons, physical state changes, private security officer, defensive goals, civilian setting, incapacitating agents, field concentration, choking agent, defense goals, hazardous materials teams, integrated defense, attack site, special weapons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Higher Form of Killing, Office of the Federal Register, Department of Defense, Stedman's Medical Dictionary, National Guard, Black's Medical Dictionary, Government Printing Office, Vintage Books, Department of the Army, Kansas City, The Laws of War, Field Manual, Academy of Health Sciences, Factories of Death, Fort Sam Houston, Charter of the United Nations, General Assembly Resolution, Jane's Information Group, Posse Comitatus Act, The Law of Land Warfare, Basic Books, Day One, Definition of Aggression New!
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The counterterrorism policy of the United States has been structured by a combination of three spheres of influence, the United Nations, various international agreements, and the Constitutional structure of the United States as discussed in Police Analysis and Planning for Vehicular Bombings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nervous system within minutes, vent pit, common defense forces, vehicle bomb, survival zone, decontamination operations, radiation weapon, terrorist group use, contaminated patients, unorganized militia, destructive device, radiological attacks, radiological weapons, physical state changes, private security officer, defensive goals, civilian setting, incapacitating agents, field concentration, choking agent, defense goals, hazardous materials teams, integrated defense, attack site, special weapons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Higher Form of Killing, Office of the Federal Register, Department of Defense, Stedman's Medical Dictionary, National Guard, Black's Medical Dictionary, Government Printing Office, Vintage Books, Department of the Army, Kansas City, The Laws of War, Field Manual, Academy of Health Sciences, Factories of Death, Fort Sam Houston, Charter of the United Nations, General Assembly Resolution, Jane's Information Group, Posse Comitatus Act, The Law of Land Warfare, Basic Books, Day One, Definition of Aggression New!
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- A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Gas and Germ Warfare by Robert Harris on 6 pages
- The Effects of Nuclear Weapons by Samuel Glasstone on 5 pages
- Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up by Sheldon H. Harris on 4 pages
- The Truth About Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev on page 123, page 172, and Back Matter
- Day One: Before Hiroshima and After by Peter Wyden on page 122, page 123, and Back Matter
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