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Lamar County Multi- Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan <br />Chapter Three <br />3. Extent <br />The extent of a terrorist attack can vary from small to catastrophic. An attack can cause multiple <br />deaths, completely shut down facilities for thirty days or more, and cause more than fifty percent <br />of affected properties to be destroyed or suffer major damage. Even a small terrorist incident <br />could have multiple impacts spreading throughout a community, such as disruption of services, <br />interruptions to business, banking, communications systems, and long term trauma to <br />responders, witnesses, caregivers, and others. A terrorist event could devastate the county <br />physically, economically, and psychologically for many years to come. <br />Table 3.1 : terrorist Attack Types <br />erors gei <br />Descrp err <br />7Bombs,'Gunis, <br />• Traditionalll weapons used by terrorists worldwide <br />Explosives, <br />Fres <br />• Less technically and resource demanding to create <br />• The release of infectious microbes or toxins to produce illness or death <br />in people, animals, or plants <br />Biological Agent <br />. Can be dispersed as aerosols or airborne particles <br />• Potential biological weapons include: anthrax, botulism, smallpox, water <br />safety threats, and food safety threats. <br />• Difficult to cultivate and disseminate <br />• Can kill or incapacitate people, slay livestock, and destroy crops. <br />• Some are odorless and tasteless making them even harder to detect <br />Chemical Agent <br />• Wide array of potential chemical agents that could be used as weapons <br />• Vary in the effects on the body based on required dose, exposure <br />mechanism, and length of exposure, toxicity, origination, and form. <br />• Examples of chemical agents, mustard agent and cyanide. <br />Radiological Agent <br />• Constructing a nuclear bomb would be relatively difficult and require <br />146 <br />