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POSTPONED--911 Emergency Dispatching; Weapons of Mass Destruction Overview

2020-04-08
New Braintree Regional Communications Center 340 West Brookfield Road New Braintree, MA 01531

Instructor: Acting Chief Daniel Valadas of Ludlow Police Department

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From 8:00am to 4:00pm
Registration: 7:45am

Weapons of Mass Destruction Overview

 What is WMD, myth or reality?  What does the acronym CBRNE stand for?  Why do I need to know about these?  In this modern age of globalization and interconnectivity, many mass-casualty threats exist, along with an abundance of soft targets.  It is imperative that our nation's first responders and our public safety personnel know as much as they can about the threats posed by such high-impacting weapons.  This course provides an overview and awareness of the threats from WMD and how every community can be alert for such threats.

 

WMD defined through the following subject topics:    

- Development, past events, we must learn from what has already occurred.

- Chemical and Biological Weapons Threats

- Conventional vs Non-Conventional Warfare

- Characteristics, Categories, Stability of

- Morbidity, Lethality, and Case Fatality Rates

- Types of Toxic Agents and Substances, Poisons, and Methods of Infection or Ingestion

- Biological Threat Levels, is it a Bacterial or Viral Threat, & Infectious Diseases

- Radiological and Nuclear Threats, Fissile Materials, Types of Radiation

- Physiological Effects, the Big City Contamination or Detonation Scenario

- Explosives, Types, Threat Recognition, Composition, Textures, & Initiation Methods

- Availability of WMD, Narco-Terrorism, Agro-Terrorism, Cyber Terrorism

- Responses, Identification of Critical Infrastructures, Targets

- Proliferation and the Nuclear Era

- Wild Cards, Nuclear Terrorism, EMP Weapons 

- Mistakes when Predicting

- Consequences from the use of WMD 

 

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» Cost: $225 USD per official.