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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 40<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 />

Risk Assessment<br />

CHEMICAL<br />

HAZARD<br />

PROBABILITY<br />

RISK<br />

Hydrogen Cyanide<br />

Catastrophic<br />

Occasional<br />

High<br />

Sulfuric Acid<br />

Catastrophic<br />

Likely<br />

Extreme<br />

Acetylene<br />

Catastrophic<br />

Frequent<br />

Extreme<br />

Nitromethane<br />

Catastrophic<br />

Seldom<br />

High<br />

Phosgene<br />

Critical<br />

Occasional<br />

High<br />

Methanol<br />

Critical<br />

Occasional<br />

High<br />

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

40<br />

This table from the 2002 USACHPPM exercise, provides a sampling <strong>of</strong> chemicals that<br />

underwent this assessment and which ultimately received a risk ranking <strong>of</strong> high or<br />

extreme. Several <strong>of</strong> these such as hydrogen cyanide and phosgene will be discussed in<br />

much more detail later in this course. They color coded and used appropriate words to<br />

describe the hazard, discussed earlier, along with the probability <strong>of</strong> use (based on<br />

historical use, availability, etc) and from this calculated a “risk” <strong>of</strong> the use <strong>of</strong> an agent as<br />

a weapon.<br />

December 2008 Version 2.0 Page 45

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