How long a chemical agent will stay on a surface before it evaporates.
Any agent designed to bring about death, casualties, and/or massive damage to property and infrastructure (bridges, tunnels, airports, and seaports); also known as a weapon of mass destruction
Any agent designed to bring about mass death, casualties, and/or massive damage to property and infrastructure (bridges, tunnels, airports, and seaports); also known as a weapon of mass casualty.
The release of an agent after exposure- fore example, from a person's clothes that have been exposed to the agent.
A penetrating or nonpenetrating injury caused by ordnance projectiles or secondary missiles.
A blistering agent that has a rapid onset of symptoms and produces immediate, intense pain and discomfort on contact.
Small suitcase-sized nuclear weapons that were designed to destroy individual targets, such as important buildings, bridges, tunnels, and large ships.
A class of chemical called organophosphates; they function by blocking an essential enzyme in the nervous system, which causes the body's organs to become overstimulated and burn out.
The manner by which a toxic substance enters the body.
Terrorism that is funded and/or supported by nations that hold close ties with terrorist groups.
An injury from whole-body displacement and subsequent traumatic impact with environmental objects
The creation of a weapon from a biologic agent that is generally found in nature and that causes disease; the agent is cultivated, synthesized, and/or mutated to maximize the target population's exposure to the germ.
An act of terror carried out by a single person to further an ideological goal
A nerve agent that is one of the G agents' a highly volatile colorless and odorless liquid that turns from liquid to gas within seconds to minutes at room temperature
The term used to describe the danger posed by a chemical whose primary route of entry into the body is through the skin; posed by a hazardous agent that gives off very little or no vapors; also called a skin hazard.
Germs that require a living host to multiply and survive.