Individual Preparedness Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear and Biological Terrorist Attacks

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Overview

Individual preparedness is an important element of our nation's strategy for homeland security. This report adopts a scenario-driven approach that provides a rigorous way to identify actions- linked specifically to terrorist attacks- individuals can take to protect their health and safety. The result is an individual's strategy across four types of terrorist attacks- chemical, radiological, nuclear, and biological- consisting of overarching goals and simple and directive response and preparatory actions. The actions are appropriate regardless of likelihood of an attack, scale of attack, or government alert level; designed to be sensitive to potential variations; and defined in terms of simple rules that should be easy for individuals to adopt.

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This publication is available for free in PDF format, or can be purchased as a paperback (232 pp.) for $28.00. For more information, visit the following web page:

http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1731/

An abridged verison of this publication is also available in PDF format at the following URL:

http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1731.1/MR1731.1.pdf