Documentation and Diagrams of the Atomic Bomb

Documentation and Diagrams of the Atomic Bomb

Documentation and Diagrams of the Atomic Bomb

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I. The History of the Atomic Bomb
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A). Development (The Manhattan Project)
B). Detonation
1). Hiroshima
2). Nagasaki
3). Byproducts of atomic detonations
4). Blast Zones

II. Nuclear Fission/Nuclear...

Depleted Uranium Information

Depleted Uranium Information

I am enclosing information about the use of depleted uranium during the Gulf War. This part of an investigative project that we are doing at The Edge. As well as summarising a lot of the existing information on DU, we have also gained new information from our visits to Iraq. Last May, during my visit to Iraq, I spoke to a number of doctors and environmentalists concerned about the possible hazards of DU weapons....

Defense Against Toxic Weapons: Understanding the Threat

by David R. Franz

Defense Against Toxic Weapons

Understanding the Threat

The following is a theoretical discussion based on an understanding of physical and biochemical characteristics of toxins. It is not an intelligence assessment of the threat.

TOXINS COMPARED TO CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS

Toxins differ from classical chemical agents by source and physical characteristics....

Defense Against Toxic Weapons: Protecting Health Care Providers

by David R. Franz

Defense Against Toxic Weapons

Answers to Often-Asked Questions

PROTECTING HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS

For the same reason that decontamination is only moderately important after personnel are exposed to a respirable toxin aerosol, health-care providers are probably at only limited risk from secondary aerosols. Because toxins are not volatile, casualties can, for...

Defense Against Toxic Weapons: Preface and Table of Contents

by David R. Franz

DEFENSE AGAINST TOXIN WEAPONS

David R. Franz, DVM, PhD<br> Colonel, Veterinary Corps<br> UNITED STATES ARMY

PREFACE

The contents of this document are not be construed as an official Department of the Army position unless so designated by other authorized documents. Opinions are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect doctrine.
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Defense Against Toxic Weapons: Introduction

by David R. Franz

Defense Against Toxic Weapons

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this manual is to provide basic information on biological toxins to military leaders and health-care providers at all levels to help them make informed decisions on protecting their troops from toxins. Much of the information contained herein will also be of interest to individuals charged with countering domestic and international...

Defense Against Toxic Weapons: Intelligence that Protects the Soldier

by David R. Franz

Defense Against Toxic Weapons

The Future

INTELLIGENCE: Information that protects soldiers

Readers of this document should now understand several important points about protecting soldiers and targets of terrorist attack from toxin weapons:

1) Fifteen to twenty of some 400 known toxins have the physical characteristics that make them threats...

Defense Against Toxic Weapons: Countermeasures

by David R. Franz

Defense Against Toxic Weapons

Countermeasures

PHYSICAL PROTECTION

As stated above, most toxins are neither volatile nor dermally active. Therefore, an aggressor would most likely attempt to present them as respirable aerosols. Toxin aerosols should pose neither significant residual environmental threat, nor remain on the skin or clothing. The typical toxin cloud would, depending...

Defense Against Toxic Weapons: About the Author

by David R. Franz

Defense Against Toxic Weapons

About the Author

Colonel David R. Franz, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, has served within the Medical Research and Development Command for 19 of his 23 years on active duty. He has been assigned to four of the Command's laboratories and has personally conducted research and published in the areas of frostbite...

Decontamination of Chemical Warfare Agents

by Dan Bogosian

Introduction
In protection against chemical warfare agents the decontamination is an important unavoidable part. The aim of decontamination is to rapidly and effectively render harmless or remove poisonous substances both on personnel and equipment. High decontamination capacity is one of the factors which may reduce the effect of an attack with CW agents. In this way, it may act as a deterrent.
The need...