Disaster Types and Disaster Types and Injury PatternsInjury PatternsHARRT 2004HARRT 2004

SIMPLE DISASTERSIMPLE DISASTER LIMITED IN DURATIONLIMITED IN DURATION LIMITED IN GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITED IN GEOGRAPHICAL

EXPANSEEXPANSE IMPACT UPON ON A SMALL IMPACT UPON ON A SMALL

PERCENTAGE OF THE PERCENTAGE OF THE COMMUNITY’S COMMUNITY’S

POPULATIONPOPULATION

Direct

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Medical Consequences

TIME

INTENSITY

SIMPLE DISASTER

Terrorist Weapons : The Threat Spectrum

INDUSTRIALCHEMICALS

CWAGENTS

BW AGENTS

RADIOLOGICALMATERIALS

NUCLEARMATERIALS

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

• Chlorine• Acids• Strong Bases• Bulk toxic or explosivematerials in everydaycommerce

•Phosgene•Mustard•Nerve Agents

• Bot. Tox• Anthrax• Ricin• “Engineered” microbesincl. Antibiotic resistantorganisms

• H.E. Uranium• Plutonium• Beryllium• Americium• Neptunium• Californium• “Dirty Bomb”

• High level reactor waste• Medical Isotopes• Co-60• Cs-137• Sr-90

• Purloined military devices• Oralloy gun bombs• Implosion bombs