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The following are
resources for disaster preparedness. These include natural disasters such
as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes and wildfires and also terrorism
actions of WMD, biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.
Disaster Preparedness
Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry.
Alexeter Technologies, LLC. Bio-Threat-Alert bio detection equipment.
Ambulances to Nowhere: America’s Critical Shortfall in Medical Preparedness....
Anthrax as
a Biological Weapon. JAMA Consensus Statement. Takes a minute or two to
download. In response to recent concerns about the potential for biological
terrorism, The Journal of the American Medical Association has made the full
text of articles on this subject available free to the public.
Bio/Chem Terrorism 2002.
Biological Warfare and its
Cutaneous Manifestations. Excellent Resource.
Bioterrorism Learning Center by
Digiscript.
bioterrorism.org.
Bomb squad
school. Washington Times Article about FF Course in New Mexico.
Botulinum
Toxin as a Biological Weapon. JAMA Consensus Statement. Takes a minute
or two to download. In response to recent concerns about the potential for
biological terrorism, The Journal of the American Medical Association has made
the full text of articles on this subject available free to the public.
California Governor's Office of Emergency Services.
California Governor's Office of Emergency Services.
Directs and
coordinates California disaster and emergency response, planning, preparedness,
mitigation and recovery. Manages state US&R and Fire and Rescue Mutual Aid
Systems.
Casualty
Management After a Deliberate Release of Radioactive Material.
Casualty
Management After Detonation of a Nuclear Weapon In an Urban Area.
Catastrophic Terrorism—Local Response to a National Threat.
Article by
Governor Frank Keating of Oklahoma.
CDC
Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Site.
Center for Civilian Biodefense
Studies.
Center for the Study of Bioterrorism
& Emerging Infections.
chem-bio.com.
Helping you
counter the threat.
Chemical & Biological Arms Control
Program.
Chemical & Biological Weapons Site.
Chemical
and Biological Arms Control Institute.
CHP Anthrax Training Video. CHP Training Video courtesy of Channel 10's
server.
CIDRAP - Center for Infectious Disease Research And Policy.
Provides a
wealth of information about bioterrorism and is updated daily.
City of Sacramento
Terrorism Related Information.
Counterproliferation and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs DASD (CP/CBD).
Counter-Terrorism Coordination and Health Information Networks (CTCHIN).
Great resource for anti-terrorism and WMD info.
CounterTerrorism.com.
Dept
of Health and Human Services Office of Emergency Preparedness.
Deptartment of Justice Office of
State & Local Domestic Preparedness Support.
Disaster Preparedness and
Emergency Response Association.
Disaster-Resource.com.
Dr. Steven
Tharratt on Bioterrorism.
EMedicine.com Biologial
Warfare Agents Page.
Executive Session
on Domestic Preparedness.
FDA
Bioterrorism Page.
FEMA
(Federal Emergency Management Agency).
GlobalSecurity.org. Great resource for terrorism info.
Homeland Defense.
Homeland Security California Resources.
Institute for Homeland Security.
Johns Hopkins University's Center
for Civilian Biodefense Strategies.
Joint SIPRI-Bradford
Chemical and Biological Warfare Project.
Mass Transit Defends Itself Against Terrorism.
Medical Management of Radiological Casualties. Armed Forces Radiobiology
Research Institute Manual.
Medical NBC Online Information Server.
Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS).
Military Support of Civil Authorities.
Monterey Institute of
International Studies. Chemical & Biological Weapons Resource Page.
National
Disaster Search Dog Foundation.
National
Domestic Preparedness Office (NDPO). The clearinghouse for state, local,
and federal weapons of mass destruction information and assistance.
National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Biodefense Web site of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH). On this site, you will find biodefense-related
information for biomedical researchers, the public, and the media.
National Library
of Medicine Info on Biological Warfare. Biological pathogens released
intentionally or accidentally, or naturally occurring, can result in disease or
death. Recent terrorist attacks in the United States and elsewhere have prompted
widespread and justified societal concerns about the hostile use of biological
agents and their potential threats to health.
National Pharmaceutical Stockpile
Program.
NBC Industry Group.
An
association of organizations supporting nuclear, biological, and chemical
defense.
NBC
Links.
NBCProtect.com. Your source for Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC)
personal protective equipment and services.
Noble Training Center. Noble Training Center is unique in that it is the
only hospital facility in the U.S. devoted entirely to medical training for
Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Nuclear War Survival Skills.
Oklahoma
City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.
On Scene Commander's Guide For Responding to Biological/Chemical Threats.
Personal Protection & Chemical
or Biological Terrorism.
Plague as
a Biological Weapon. JAMA Consensus Statement. Takes a minute or two to
download. In response to recent concerns about the potential for biological
terrorism, The Journal of the American Medical Association has made the full
text of articles on this subject available free to the public.
Plague War.
A report on the biological weapons threat and how the Soviet Union secretly
amassed an arsenal of bio-weapons.
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.
Lots of good counter-terrorism information.
Protecting Emergency
Responders - Lessons Learned from Terrorist Attacks.
This report
presents a summary of a December 2001 working conference, sponsored by the
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The report addresses the
equipment, training and information required to protect emergency responders as
they meet the challenge of protecting their communities.
Questions and Answers On
Bio-Warfare/Bio-Terrorism.
Rothstein Catalog of Disaster Recovery.
Selected Bioterrorism
References.
Smallpox
as a Biological Weapon. JAMA Consensus Statement. Takes a minute or two
to download. In response to recent concerns about the potential for biological
terrorism, The Journal of the American Medical Association has made the full
text of articles on this subject available free to the public.
Terrorism and Nuclear Energy, Understanding the Risks.
By Gwyneth
Cravens, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
Terrorism Central.
Responding
to the need for a single, trusted source of information about terrorism and
related security issues, TerrorismCentral is building a central information
repository comprising original and secondary sources spanning over four decades
of research.
Terrorism Threat: A Local
Burden. Article about terrorism training film done with the help of SFD
Hazmat teams. Quotes from Chief Jan Dunbar.
The Center for Defense Information Terrorism Project.
CDI's Terrorism
Project is designed to provide insights, in-depth analysis and facts on the
military, security and foreign policy challenges as the United States, and the
world, faces terrorism.
The Chemical Weapons Convention
Homepage.
The Demon in the Freezer.
How smallpox, a disease officially eradicated twenty years ago, became the
biggest bioterrorist threat we now face.
The National Terrorism
Preparedness Institute (NTPI) . Founded in May of 1998 as a result of
the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Act with the intent of providing Emergency Response to
Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Training to first responders nationwide.
The NBC
Medical Defense Information Server.
The
Terrorism Research Center. The Terrorism Research Center is dedicated to
informing the public of the phenomena of terrorism and information warfare.
Tularemia
as a Biological Weapon. JAMA Consensus Statement. Takes a minute or two
to download. In response to recent concerns about the potential for biological
terrorism, The Journal of the American Medical Association has made the full
text of articles on this subject available free to the public.
U.S. Army Courses on Medical
Management of Biological Agent.
United States Air
Force Counterproliferation Center.
Weapons
of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams. General Information about WMD
CST's.
WMD First Responders.
To
assist first responders in becoming more competent and confident in preparing
for and managing of the life-threatening consequences and challenges of
terrorism.
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