Responding to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) The 2010 National Security Strategy emphasizes the importance of strengthening our security and resilience at home and building capability to respond to and recover from major chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive incidents. The first action to take when any emergency, particularly a WMD one, occurs is to identify what has happened. Then it must be contained and not allowed to cause more casualties, particularly among emergency first responders or civilians who want to assist at the scene. Terrorists sometimes use secondary devices to inflict casualties on first responders. The use of incident command and the establishment of a command site become very critical during the first minutes of response. The general response protocol includes the following: Approach or evacuate upwind of the suspect area. Wear protective masks including a self-contained breathing apparatus and clothing and cover all exposed skin surfaces. Minimize exposure in radiological material incidents and maximize distance from the contaminated site. The second action is to determine how to treat persons exposed to the substance. A chemical event requires containing the scene and decontaminating victims in portable showers. A person exposed to serious radiation cannot be saved, and the contaminated area has to be cordoned off to prevent further casualties. Thus, it is important that first responders have a general training in WMD for assessment, notification, control, and containment purposes. A patrol unit coming to an office complex where employees are blistered and gasping for air are most likely dealing with a chemical attack that will require massing additional personnel and equipment under an incident command system format. Site training for the events includes establishing proper command center and taking natural and environmental factors into consideration. The initiatives emphasize multinational participation and the rapid fielding of enhanced capabilities, and include: a Joint Assessment Team that can assess the effects of a nuclear, biological or chemical event, advise NATO commanders on how to deal with it and allow them to “reach back” to national experts for technical advice. a deployable analytical laboratory which can be transported rapidly and easily into theatre to investigate, collect and analyze samples for identification of nuclear, bio logical or chemical agents a nuclear, biological and
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(bloods being red and crips being blue). Both gangs are extremely violent and can harm and/or kill another inmate.for being a member of the other gang. There are many known incidents where inmates make their own weapons such as shanks, and sharp objects. One of the other popular weapons made by inmates is placing a bar of soap in a pillow case, which can be used to beat another inmate. Another reason there is so much violence in prisons is because certain dominant inmates set rules, and if those…
Responding ro Terrorism: Policy Options (Option 3; Defend out homeland) How would you want to handle the issue of terrorism? I believe the best option for us as a country is option three defend our homeland. This is the best option because we have troops overseas occupying land, we have too much foreign involvement and lastly establish national identity could tighten immigration laws. I will elaborate in the paragraphs below. First, we have troops and bases in other countries which could spark…
concealed weapons permit. Sounds like an admirable thing to do. While the current focus of such laws is to protect us from homicidal, mentally ill “lunatics” (a Wayne LaPierre word – not mine), it will more likely save more lives by preventing suicide, which is far more common among people with mental illnesses than homicide. The bill requires a “preventative assessment” that enables the state to suspend a person’s right to purchase or possess a gun or ammunition and obtain a concealed weapons permit…
result of terrorists or a border dispute. The Middle East seems to continually be in a state of unrest. From one day to the next, life changes from a peaceful state to volatile and deadly. The countries that border Israel attract terrorists, weapons traffickers, and criminal networks because ungoverned or minimally governed spaces are multiplying near Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon, Libya, and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. As a result, border fences with appropriate security measures are…
felons, drug abusers, undocumented aliens, and persons who had been dishonorably discharged from the military, were subject to a restraining order, had renounced their U.S. citizenship, or who had been convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor. Responding to pressure from the gun lobby, Congress enacted the Firearm Owners’ Protection Act (FOPA) in 1986 to address owners’ concerns that federal agents had abused their rights in enforcing the Gun Control Act. FOPA allowed interstate commerce of some…
Czechoslovakia. a. In 1953, some 50,000 workers confronted the Soviet army in the streets of the German capital. b. In 1956, Eastern European challenged Soviet authority in the name of economic reform in both Poland and Hungary. i. Poles were responding in part to Soviet-backed mass arrests of noncommunist leaders and government seizures of private lands and industry. ii. Hungarian leader Imre Nagy (nahj) went furthest, ending one-party rule and seeking to pull his country out of the Warsaw Pact…
Current event 5/09/2012 Texas became the newest state to have a federal judge restrict its same-sex marriage ban. On February 26, 2014 in San Antonio, Orlando Garcia reversed the Texas ban on same-sex marriage, ruling that the prohibition is unconstitutional. Of course the court decision in Texas was only made in obedience with the U.S Constitution and the Supreme Court’s precedent. Garcia stated, “Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can…
officers, and a campus wide alert system was put in place. Safety measures such as these, centered on nonlethal preventative methods at the University. As a public state university, it is the State’s responsibility to determine the lethal and nonlethal weapons campus police are permitted to carry while on duty. Currently unarmed, the officers of the university police department are…
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address this problem and reduce negative impacts on everyone involved. Argument There are three main arguments in the debate of concealed weapons on campuses that entail personal rights, campus safety in regards to learning and living environment and professional sufficiency. Individuals who have obtained the legal responsibility to carry concealed weapons in other public areas do not feel that authority should be restricted by universities. Research has shown attitudes towards gun rights are immense…
