Terrorist incidents national response

After 9/11, the federal government adopted a National Response Plan (NRP), built on the template of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), which adopts an all-hazards approach to emergency management, helping streamline a national response irrespective of the cause of the emergency (i.e., terrorist or natural DHS, 2004). The NRP applies to all incidents requiring a coordinated federal response and is scalable to the nature of the event. However, NRP maintains the local/state primary role in public health response, with a continued premise that state and local authorities will handle the first response. (A private-sector role is also envisioned.)... 

Moore and Alexander describe the organization and capabilities of the national response apparatus to a domestic or international terrorist use of a weapon of mass destrnction. This apparatus involves many federal agencies that snpport and complement local and state response systems which respond to snch incidents. The review also discusses the implications of low-level toxicity of chemical warfare agents for the crisis and consequence management phases of the federal response. Finally, the anthors provide a brief summary of how several federally funded research and development programs may enhance future response capabilities. 

Institute of Medicine. 1998. Improving Civilian Medical Response to Chemical or Biological Terrorist Incidents Interim Report on Current Capabilities. Washington, DC National Academy Press. 

The response of the NHS, emergency services and any individual responders or groups (such as local BASICS practitioners) is covered in Chapter 2. This chapter covers the response to a terrorist incident at a national level when this is necessary, bearing in mind that the majority of incidents will be handled by local agencies. 

Responsibilities of the National Health Service (NHS) in the event of a terrorist incident include ... 

In response to the terrorist threat, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) developed the National Incident Management System (NIMS). This system makes use of the ICS but expands it so that federal, state, and local governments can work together, not only to respond to a terrorist attack (or other natural... 

Response to any recognized terrorist attack probably would immediately be federalized and perhaps even militarized (see the section National Incident Management System in Chapter 1). In today s world it is not a question of whether such an attack will happen hut only where, when, and hy what method ... 

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