chemical terrorism

The chemical terrorism reading room.

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Terrorist CBRN: Materials and Effects [CIA, May 2003] (6 pages)

Assessing the Risk of Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation to Terrorists [Jean Pascal Zanders] (18 pages)

Terrorist Motivations for Chemical and Biological Weapons Use: Placing the Threat in Context (11 pages)

Economics, Hysteresis and Agroterrorism (28 pages)

The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook (23 pages)

Agrichemical and Environmental News Special Edition: Focus on Agriculture/Food Terrorism (20 pages)

Terrorism: Background on Chemical, Biological, and Toxin Weapons and Options for Lessening Their Impact (18 pages)

Small-scale Terrorist Attacks Using Chemical and Biological Agents: An Assessment Framework and Preliminary Comparisons (89 pages)

Teachers' Topics - Pharmacotoxicology of Chemical and Biological Terrorism (9 pages)

Hazardous Material Disaster Planning

Safeguarding the Nation's Drinking Water: EPA and Congressional Actions [Congressional Research Service, December 2004] (15 pages)

Hazardous Materials Guide for First Responders (FEMA) (564 pages)

Planning Scenarios [Executive Summaries] Created for Use in National, Federal, State, and Local Homeland Security Preparedness Activities (55 pages)

2004 Emergency Response Guidebook (374 pages)

2008 Emergency Response Guidebook (378 pages)

New York University Laboratory Safety Handbook (36 pages)

Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings (243 pages)

Chemical Plants as Targets/Weapons

Chemical Plant Security [Congressional Research Service, February 2005]

Chemical accident risks in U.S. industry - A preliminary analysis of accident risk data from U.S. hazardous chemical facilities (41 pages)

Chemicals Unsecured: Chemical Plants Dangerously Vulnerable to Terrorism (22 pages)

Homeland Security [GAO Report]: Voluntary Initiatives Are Under Way at Chemical Facilities, but the Extent of Security Preparedness Is Unknown (46 pages)

Homeland Security [GAO Testimony]: Federal and Industry Efforts Are Addressing Security Issues at Chemical Facilities, but Additional Action Is Needed (19 pages)

Homeland Unsecured: The Bush Administration's Hostility to Regulation and Ties to Industry Leave America Vulnerable (117 pages)

Accident Epidemiology and the U.S. Chemical Industry: Preliminary Results from RMP*Info (28 Pages)

Military Poison Gases

High-Threat Chemical Agents: Characteristics, Effects, and Policy Implications [Congressional Research Service, September 2003] (28 pages)

Toxicity of Nerve Agents [Critical Care Nurse, October 2003] (7 pages)

Delayed Toxic Effects of Chemical Warfare Agents [Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1975] (70 pages)

Summary of Chemical Agent Air Exposure Values [August 2004] (2 pages)

Summary of Multi-Media Chemical Agent Toxicity and Exposure Values [August 2004] (2 pages)

Chemical And Biological Weapons In Egypt (11 pages)

Military CBW Doctrine

NBC Decontamination [US Army, US Marine Corps, July 2000] (229 pages)

NBC Decontamination Operations (Change 1) [US Army, US Marine Corps, January 2002] (94 pages)

Field Behavior of NBC Agents (Including Smoke and Incendiaries) [US Army/Air Force/Marine Corps, November 1986] (79 pages)

Potential Military Chemical/Biological Agents and Compounds [US Department of Defense, January 2005] (318 pages)

Multiservice Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Operations. [US Department of Defense, March 2003] (220 pages)

WMD

Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction [Office of Technology Assessment, December 1993] (265 pages)

Deconflating "WMD" (15 pages)

Biological and Chemical Weapons: Criminal Sanctions and Federal Regulations [Congressional Research Service, February 2004]

Compound 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate)

The EPA's reregistration decision on 1080.
A report on environmental issues at Tull Chemical's 1080 plant.
A review of 1080 hazards to wildlife.
An Australian review of 1080 product registrations.
From New Zealand: A technical review of 1080 toxicology.
From New Zealand: Q and A on 1080 for possum control.
From New Zealand: The use of 1080 to control possum and other pests.

TETS (tetramethylenedisulfotetramine)

Rodenticidal Compositions (Bayer's U.S. patent, 1953). (plain text)
Old Agent and New Terror.
A case of tetramine poisoning: a lethal rodenticide (3 pages).
Tetramine poisoning (4 pages).

U.S. patents on TEPP and related compounds:

U.S. Patent 2,336,302
Dec. 7, 1943 [Gerhard Schrader]
Hexaesters of Tetraphosphoric Acid

U.S. Patent 2,523,243
Sept. 19, 1950 [Monsanto]
Manufacture of Tetraethyl Pyrophosphate

U.S. Patent 2,554,756
May 29, 1951 [Monsanto]
Rodenticide Composition

U.S. Patent 2,640,800
June 2, 1953
Tetraethyl Pyrophosphate Insecticide

TEPP precursor compounds:

Ricin

Ricin: Technical Background and Potential Role in Terrorism [Congressional Research Service]

Chemical Weapons Information from the Federation of American Scientists

Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare
from the Textbook of Military Medicine
Office of The Surgeon General
Department of the Army, United States of America

[front matter] (10 pages)

Foreword (1 page)

Preface (2 pages)

Medical Force 2000 Patient Flow in a Theater of Operations (1 page)

Medical Aftermath of the Persian Gulf War (1 page)

Overview: Defense Against the Effects of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents (7 pages)

History of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents: An American Perspective (78 pages)

Historical Aspects of Medical Defense Against Chemical Warfare (23 pages)

The Chemical Warfare Threat and the Military Healthcare Provider (18 pages)

Nerve Gases (51 pages)

Pretreatment for Nerve Agent Exposure (16 pages)

Vesicants (32 pages)

Long-Term Health Effects of Nerve Agents and Mustard (18 pages)

Toxic Inhalational Injury (24 pages)

Cyanide Poisoning (16 pages)

Incapacitating Agents (19 pages)

Riot Control Agents (18 pages)

Field Management of Chemical Casualties (12 pages)

Triage of Chemical Casualties (13 pages)

Decontamination (9 pages)

Chemical Defense Equipment (36 pages)

Healthcare and the Chemical Surety Mission (17 pages)

Historical Overview of Biological Warfare (9 pages)

The U.S. Biological Warfare and Biological Defense Programs (12 pages)

Use of Biological Weapons (14 pages)

The Biological Warfare Threat (16 pages)

Anthrax (12 pages)

Plague (24 pages)

Tularemia (10 pages)

Brucellosis (9 pages)

Q Fever (15 pages)

Smallpox (21 pages)

Viral Encephalitides (29 pages)

Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (12 pages)

Defense Against Toxin Weapons (17 pages)

Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B and Related Pyrogenic Toxins (10 pages)

Ricin Toxin (12 pages)

Botulinum Toxins (12 pages)

Trichothecene Mycotoxins (22 pages)

Medical Challenges in Chemical and Biological Defense for the 21st Century (9 pages)

Acronyms and Abbreviations (3 pages)

Index (31 pages)