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Chemical Agents of Opportunity for Terrorism: TICs & TIMs

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<strong>Chemical</strong> <strong>Agents</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Opportunity</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Terrorism</strong><br />

Training Support Package<br />

Participant Guide<br />

Slide 32<br />

<strong>Chemical</strong> <strong>Agents</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Opportunity</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Terrorism</strong>:<br />

<strong>TICs</strong> & <strong>TIMs</strong><br />

Railway Explosion<br />

• Power cables touch rail cars loaded with ammonium nitrate fertil izer<br />

• Buildings <strong>for</strong> several hundred meters were totally flattened<br />

• 129 public buildings destroyed or damaged including hospital, fo od processing<br />

plant, and college.<br />

• Rescue workers described utter devastation with damage extending <strong>for</strong> 4 km<br />

Module One – Toxic Warfare: Looking Beyond Conventional <strong>Chemical</strong> Weapons<br />

32<br />

Explosive chemical are <strong>of</strong> great concern. This event in North Korea in 2004 provides a<br />

graphic picture. In this case, power cables ignited a nitrogen-based (ammonium nitrate)<br />

fertilizer in the rail cars. The <strong>for</strong>ce <strong>of</strong> the explosion destroyed building <strong>for</strong> several<br />

kilometers. The death toll in this event was 154.<br />

In the middle <strong>of</strong> the right hand third <strong>of</strong> the pre-explosion image is a school, which was<br />

just letting out at the time <strong>of</strong> the explosion. Of the 154 deaths there were 76 children.<br />

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