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All in CBRN Operations
(A little something about weaponized disinformation, with an obscure song reference from the 80s)
You know what, Stuart, I like you. You're not like the other people, here, in the trailer park.
The 2001 Anthrax Attacks offered many lessons in what not do when it came to a biological threat. Unfortunately, now as we find ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic, it seems no one learned any of those lessons. CBRNPro.net takes a look back at the White Powder Rodeo of 2001 and what it means for today.
Part 3 of the CBRNPro.net series on CBRN equipment selection and use examines Ion-Mobility Spectrometry (IMS) based Chemical Agent Detectors, how they work and sometimes don’t work the way you expect, as well as a few best practices for their use, along with some useful tips and techniques to help you get the most out of your IMS detector.
A new post exploring personal radiation monitoring and detection, the second part of a new series at CBRNPro.net titled “I don’t think you are doing that right…” Equipment selection and use in CBRN operations.
CBRN world is full of technology and various “magic boxes” designed to provide information. Many of these devices are in the hands of operators who lack an understanding of the technology they use. This series examines some of the critical pieces of equipment in CBRN operations and the ways operators can utilize their equipment properly to improve safety and increase operational awareness.
Clickbait. Every site has it these days. We didn’t want to be different. So here you go: The Top Ten Things People Get Wrong About CBRN
Are we as unprepared as we were in 1917? Or as ready as we were in 1990? War in Korea would be chemical. That has consequences for military operations. Are we ready for them?
In the conclusion to our series exploring the Aum Shinrikyo attacks on the Tokyo Subway, CBRNPro.net argues that medical facilities, like St. Luke's in Tokyo, are a main locus for CBRN incident response, even more so than incident scenes in many cases. Planning, coordination, and information management are key to solving the problems associated with CBRN incidents, and have wider application to mass casualty incidents.
CBRNPro.net continues its series on Aum Shinrikyo and the response to the sarin attacks on the Tokyo subway system. In this, our third post, we examine the vexing problem of worried well that is particularly associated with major CBRN events. This problem poses significant short, medium, and long term challenges for responders, medical care givers, emergency management, and local, state, and federal officials and policy makers. We examine ways to manage the problem and explore options for implementing procedures to deal with both worried well and psychological casualties.
In our second post in a series on the Aum Shinrikyo Sarin attack on the Tokyo Subway system we examine the points of failure during the the response to that attack, some lessons learned, and the uneven implementation of those lessons in the US and other countries.
March 2016 marked the 21st anniversary of the Aum Shinrikyo sarin attack on the Tokyo subway. This seminal event in the history of CBRN marked a major shift world wide toward a focus on CBRN terrorism and led to the creation of new groups, like the CST-WMD teams, to deal with it. Yet, most of what is "known" in the CBRN community about the attack, and what is printed in newspaper articles and books about the attack is inaccurate or wrong. CBRNPro.net examines what really happened in this first of a series of posts about the attack.
At CBRNPro.net we are too sexy for our Gaussian Dispersion model, yeah, too sexy for our plumes, yeah. But seriously, we are not talking about cocaine, Zoolander turning left, or Tom Brady. We are talking about all of the issues associated with CBRN models from ALOHA to HPAC. CATS-JACE not Catwalks. We even break it all down into a top ten list. Oh and if you pay attention you might be able to win the trivia contest on our facebook page!
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