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How can individuals best prepare themselves against a variety of terrorist attacks?
About the Author
Tom LaTourette (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology) is an associate physical scientist at RAND.
Lois M. Davis (Ph.D., Public Health, UCLA) is a health policy researcher at RAND, a former National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) postdoctoral fellow, and a former Pew Health Policy Fellow.
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Bit hard to judge veracity ... but seems a lifesaver!,
This review is from: Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks: A Quick Guide (Paperback)
It is a bit hard to rate this book, since I have no expert knowledge as to its veracity or not, and that is really the crux of this book. The advice sounds true, but I don't know for sure ... do any of us? (Remember 'Duck and Cover'?) I would recommend that most every American who lives and/or works in a likely target (e.g. any large-sized metropolitan city) read what this book says, though, and commit it to memory. This is one of those books that, having read free online (Rand makes it available online free at http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1731/), I am going to also purchase, mostly for the reference card available at the end. As someone who spends 8-10 hours per day in the nation's second largest major metropolitan center (Chicago), I would rather have this information handy in card form should the worst ever happen. Call me paranoid, but I'd rather have it and not need it, rather than needing it and not having it ...
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The September 11 attacks and the anthrax incidents that occurred in autumn 2001 clearly demonstrated to Americans that the possibility of becoming a victim of terrorism is very real. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
attacks involving unconventional weapons, indoor chemical release, outdoor chemical attack, recommended response actions, expedient respiratory protection, emergency preparedness guidelines, radiological dust, radioactive fallout cloud, terrorist attacks involving chemical, fallout zone, radiological attack, individual preparedness, escape hoods, false incidents, campaign guidelines, catastrophic terrorist attacks, prompt radiation, barrier capacity, noncontagious diseases, postexposure vaccination, catastrophic terrorism, blast zone, fallout area, mass anxiety, indoor shelter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Department of Homeland Security, American Red, Home Front, United States, Switzerland Spiez Laboratory, Association National, Chemical Agent Fact, Emergency Management Institute, National Guard, Lethality General, Actions Not Recommended Based, Attack Characteristics Types of Attack New!
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The September 11 attacks and the anthrax incidents that occurred in autumn 2001 clearly demonstrated to Americans that the possibility of becoming a victim of terrorism is very real. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
attacks involving unconventional weapons, indoor chemical release, outdoor chemical attack, recommended response actions, expedient respiratory protection, emergency preparedness guidelines, radiological dust, radioactive fallout cloud, terrorist attacks involving chemical, fallout zone, radiological attack, individual preparedness, escape hoods, false incidents, campaign guidelines, catastrophic terrorist attacks, prompt radiation, barrier capacity, noncontagious diseases, postexposure vaccination, catastrophic terrorism, blast zone, fallout area, mass anxiety, indoor shelter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Department of Homeland Security, American Red, Home Front, United States, Switzerland Spiez Laboratory, Association National, Chemical Agent Fact, Emergency Management Institute, National Guard, Lethality General, Actions Not Recommended Based, Attack Characteristics Types of Attack New!
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- First Aid by American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons on page 128, and page 133
- First Aid by U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force U.S. Army on page 127, and page 133
- Stress and Coping by Alan Monat on page 149
- Stress, Appraisal, and Coping by Richard S. Lazarus PhD in Back Matter
- The Effects of Nuclear Weapons by Samuel Glasstone in Back Matter
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- Protecting the Homeland 2006/2007 by Michael O'Hanlon, Peter Orszag, Jeremy Shapiro, and James Steinberg Michael d'Arcy on page 127
- Three Years After: Next Steps in the War on Terror by David Aaron on page 32
- Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks: A Quick Guide by Lynn E. Davis in Front Matter
- Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks by Lynn E. Davis in Front Matter
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