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Terrorism Preparedness: Glossary

Glossary of Terms Used In Terrorism and Emergency Preparedness

These are a few glossaries and resouces that you may find useful: A concise weapons of mass destruction glossary from the Monterey Institute's Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Weapons of Mass Destruction Handbook at FoxNews.com. The U.S. Army Center for Health has a Glossary of terms for nuclear, biological, and chemical agents and defense equipment that you can download from our site (604 K PDF file, 145 pages). Local reproduction is "authorized and encouraged". Good set of references, too. WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) include any weapons or devices that are intended, or have the capability, to cause death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of people through the release of toxic or poisonous chemicals or their precursors, a disease organism, or radiation or radioactivity.

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