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Terrorism wms
Differient bombs that terrorist use to get their point across
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Terrorism that is carried out by not of the host's country, aka cross boarder terrorist | international terrorism |
| Terrorism carried out by naitive citizen of country being attacked | domestic terroist |
| any agent designed to bring about mass death | Wepons of mass distruction |
| meaning: the public safty community generally has no prior knowlege of time location or nature of an attack | covert |
| meaning:when you come in contact with a contaminated person who has not yet been decontaminated | cross contamination |
| a device intended primarily to to injure responders and secure media coverage | secondary bombs |
| term used to decribe how long chemical will stay on surface before ecaporation | persistancy and volatitly |
| term used to describe how the agent most effectively enters the body | route of exposure |
| meaning: enters the body through respiratory tract in the form of vapors | vapor hazard |
| meaning: give off very little vapors but enters body through skin | contact hazard |
| Meaning: blister agents | vesicants |
| primary route for blister agents | contact |
| sulfer mustard, lewisite and phosgene-oximne are examples of | blister agents |
| symbol: sulfer mustard | H |
| symbol: Lewisite | L |
| Symbol: Phosgene oxime | CX |
| a brownish yellowish oily substance that is usually considered very persistant. Absorbed into skin. causes cellular mutations | Sulfer Mustard (agent H) |
| produces blister wounds very simular to mustard, they are very volitile and have rapid onset symptoms. Patient may have greyish discoloration at contamminated site | lewsite (L) and phosgene oximie (CX) |