Assessing Medical Preparedness to Respond to a Terrorist Nuclear Event

Name: Assessing Medical Preparedness to Respond to a Terrorist Nuclear Event
Brand: National Academies Press

National Academies Press

A nuclear attack on a large U.S. city by terrorists\u2014even with a low-yield improvised nuclear device (IND) of 10 kilotons or less\u2014would cause a large number of deaths and severe injuries. The large number of injured from the detonation and radioactive fallout that would follow would be overwhelming for local emergency response and health care systems to rescue and treat, even assuming that these systems and their personnel were not themselves incapacitated by the event.\nThe United States has been struggling for some time to address and plan for the threat of nuclear terrorism and other weapons of mass destruction that terrorists might obtain and use. The Department of Homeland Security recently contracted with the Institute of Medicine to hold a workshop, summarized in this volume, to\n\nAssessing Medical Preparedness to Respond to a Terrorist Nuclear Event\nWorkshop Report\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal;