Posts Tagged ‘radiological’
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
New York City police and law enforcement in the tri-state area began conducting a five-day training drill Tuesday to test whether they are prepared for the possibility of a “dirty bomb” attack.
The exercise, which is scheduled to run through Saturday, involves hundreds of personnel from 150 law enforcement and other first responder agencies who are partners in the Securing the Cities Initiative. It will be conducted on land, including the rail and highways, and on the waterways.
The drill is designed to test the ability to detect and interdict radiological material that could be used in a terrorist attack.
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Tags: dirty bomb, Law Enforcement, new york city, New York City Police Department, radiological, Tri-state area
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
The threat of a dirty bomb attack has been a major concern for US intelligence and law enforcement officials for sometime now and although such an attack has not taken place inside the US, it should in no way imply that terrorists have ceased planning such an event.
The Wall St. Journal backs this up with a report.
Denying terrorists access to radiological materials that can be used in a dirty bomb attack—one that could bring our economy to a standstill and render areas uninhabitable for decades—is a major security challenge.
Should a dirty bomb or multiple dirty bombs be detonated in any American city, port complex, airport or train station, the result could be loss of life and widespread panic.
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- Essex home raided over Iran dirty bomb threat (timesonline.co.uk)
- Columbia Scientists Prepare for a Threat: A Dirty Bomb in New York (nytimes.com)
Tags: al qaeda, Biological Chemical and Radiological, bomb, dirty bomb, homeland security, Jane Harman, Law, radiological, terror, terror plot, terroris, terrorism, United States, Warfare and Conflict, Weapon of mass destruction, weapons
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
By Jenni Hesterman – What if the bad guys are somehow able to defeat us and set off a nuclear weapon in downtown LA? Not a dirty bomb, but an actual 10 kiloton nuclear device that results in the stereotypical mushroom cloud over the city.
How should first responders plan for this attack? What are the key actions that should be taken in the first hour, the second hour and beyond? How can we educate our public on what to do in the event of this attack?
This briefing was conducted at the Radiological or Nuclear Incident & Clinical Application Seminar. It is presented by Brooke Buddemeier from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and Global Security. Buddemeier works with DHS on preparation of cities for a nuclear detonation. He is a Certified Health Physicist and radiation safety specialist.
I think you will agree this is an eye opening presentation and I encourage you to watch it from beginning to end and absorb some critical information we don’t often see in the public domain.
Some key points:
Technical:
- A 10 KT detonation gives of the light of 1,000 midday suns up to a mile away for about 15 seconds
- A 10 KT detonation is the equivalent of 5000 Oklahoma City truck bombs
- Creates a 600 foot crater
- 3 miles out of from the epicenter, glass is still breaking in buildings -800,000 people in LA affected within the 3 mile circle
But, it’s not all bad news – if you can get to shelter you could survive the fallout and there is particle decay as time goes by.
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Jenni Hesterman – Counter Terror Forum
Jenni Hesterman is a retired Air Force colonel, a contributing editor for The Counter Terrorist magazine, a full professor of counter terrorism studies at American Military University and a senior Analyst for the MASY Group, a global intelligence and risk management firm.
In addition to this, she is the author of the blog: www.counterterrorforum.com and contributor to National Terror Alert.
Her blog, Counter Terror Forum highlights items of interest regarding threats to national security, terrorism, transnational crime, organized crime, and gangs.
The site also serves to support the law enforcement and intelligence community with open source reporting and analysis.
Tags: Biological Chemical and Radiological, Counter-terrorism, los angeles, national security, nuclear, nuclear blast, Nuclear Detonation, Nuclear weapon, radiological, terror, terrorism, terrorists, United States, Warfare and Conflict, weapons
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
With a few drops of blood, scientists are creating a way to tell who has absorbed dangerous radiation levels, part of the government’s preparations against a terror attack, and advance research that just might point toward new cancer care, too.
Duke University’s work aims to allow rapid triage in the aftermath of a dirty bomb explosion or other radiological emergency, to sort out who among potentially thousands of panicked people need treatment for radioactive fallout and who can go home.
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Tags: Cancer, Cancer research, dirty bomb, Duke University, Government, Nuclear fallout, Oncology, radiactive, radiation, radiological
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
Tonight on the National Geographic Channel, don’t miss Dirty Bomb Attack, a one-hour docudrama on how to survive a dirty bomb attack. A US city is the target of a hypothetical radiological attack. The episode begins with a dramatization of a car bomb detonating in a busy street and sets up the question, what happens next?”
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Tags: Biological Chemical and Radiological, bomb, car bomb, dirty bomb, how to survive a dirty bomb, national geographic, National Geographic Channel, radiological, Social Sciences, terror, terrorism, terrorist, United States, Warfare and Conflict, weapons
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
US cities would be so overwhelmed by a dirty bomb or nuclear bomb attack that they would invariably rely upon the federal government for recovery, but agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have not yet completed their planning for delivering such assistance, congressional investigators warned Monday.
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Tags: backpack bomb, bomb, dirty bomb, Emergency management, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal government of the United States, fema, homeland security, Nuclear weapon, radioactive, radiological, radiological bomb, terror, terrorism, terrorist, United States
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
In an effort to catch “dirty” radioactive bombs and weapons of terrorists, the U.S. government has in recent years installed highly sensitive radiation sensors at all of its land, sea and air points of entry. Ten days ago they caught Don Tracey’s radioactive blood.
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Tags: Biological Chemical and Radiological, canadian border, Environment, Environmental Health, Health Physics and Radiological Health, homeland security, radiation, radioactive, radiological, Warfare and Conflict, weapons
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
The U.S. Homeland Security Department is undertaking a pilot program aimed at countering the threat of a small-vessel attack on the nation’s ports, an official told Global Security Newswire last week (see GSN, July 24).
Boats docked at a marina in San Diego, Calif. The United States has launched a new effort to protect its ports from small vessel attacks, an official said last week (Don Emmert/Getty Images).
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Tags: California, Counties, Department of Homeland Security, dirty bomb, homeland security, nuclear, nuclear attack, nuclear terror, radiological, san diego, small vessel, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, War on Terrorism, Warfare and Conflict
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
The recently released Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation, developed by the White House Homeland Security Council, stresses that it’s “incumbent upon all levels of government” to prepare “through focused nuclear attack response planning.”
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Tags: Executive Branch, Government, nuclear, nuclear attack, nuclear preparedness, nuclear terror, nuclear terrorism, nuclear terrorists, Nuclear weapon, radiological, United Nations Security Council, United States, Warfare and Conflict, white house
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
The US Department of Homeland Security has given three state-of-the-art radiation detectors to the New York Police Department to patrol city streets in search of dirty bombs and other nuclear threats.
The 450,000-dollar worth Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Monitors will be placed in three SUVs on Wednesday at entrances to tunnels, bridges and tollbooths, the Daily News reports.
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Tags: bomb, Department of Homeland Security, dirty bob, dirty bomb, explosives, homeland security, New York, New York City Police Department, nypd, Police, radiation, radiation monitor, radiological, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Homeland Security
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
A robot has been combing a metro home for explosives since Tuesday morning after finding a man near Penn Square Mall with a bomb on Monday, police said.
Officers said an anonymous tip led police to Steven Andrew Jordal, 24, who has been accused of making bombs inside his northwest Oklahoma City house.
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Tags: bomb, explosive, Explosive material, Gary Knight, KOCO-TV, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, oklahoma city bomb, Penn Square Mall, Police, radiological, United States, Warfare and Conflict, weapons
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
The warning continues that it’s still not a question of if, but of when…
Security officials warn that terrorists are trying to obtain radioactive materials to construct a “dirty bomb” and have called on countries around the globe to intensify efforts to stem the illicit traffic in nuclear bomb-making materials.
Tags: Biological Chemical and Radiological, Counter-terrorism, dirty bomb, Home Office, International Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear weapon, radiological, Scotland, terrorism, United States, Warfare and Conflict, weapons
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