ABSTRACT
Additionally, a mass disaster may be the result of terrorism, an intentional man-made disaster. Terror threats come in a variety of forms: chemical terrorism, such as the release of sarin gas in a Tokyo subway; biological terrorism, such as anthrax contained in a letter sent to a governmental agency; radiological terrorism, the detonation of a “dirty bomb” containing radioactive uranium in a populated area, causing relatively little physical damage but creating a wasteland of radioactive contamination and widespread death from radiation eects; nuclear terrorism, the threat of detonating a nuclear device in a populated
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area causing devastating physical damage over a very large area; and explosive terrorism, a bomb blast in a crowded nightclub in Bali, Indonesia, or an aircra deliberately crashing into the World Trade Center (WTC), in New York. At the heart of each form of terrorism is the desire to terrorize its victims by causing a maximum amount of destruction, thus creating emotional, nancial, and psychological turmoil among the survivors.
