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U.S. Simulates Nuclear Terrorist Incident
The U.S. Defense Department is conducting a training exercise this week that simulates a nuclear terrorist strike on Charleston, S.C., Inside Missile Defense reported yesterday (see GSN, May 31). All of the activity is taking place at Fort Monroe, Va., headquarters of the Joint Task Force-Civil Support, a unit composed of Guard members from all five military branches as well as civilian personnel. The drill —“Sudden Respond 05” — began Monday and is scheduled to be completed tomorrow, according to Inside Missile Defense. “What we’re doing is validating what we call our ‘nuclear playbook’ — our operating procedures for how we would respond to a nuclear scenario,” said Tom Sobieski, task force deputy for training and exercises. “The device is a 10-kiloton bomb, so this is more than just your dirty, high-yield explosive with radiological material on it; it’s an actual nuclear weapon,” Sobieski said. He added that this week’s drill would simulate a single attack, rather than multiple, simultaneous terrorist incidents. “We need to make sure we have a playbook in place for responding to a singular event until we moved on to a much more complex problem,” he said. Army National Guard Maj. Gen. Bruce Davis, the task force commander, is overseeing the exercise, in which 164 task force members, dozens of role players, South Carolina state officials and representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are taking part (Jason Sherman, Inside Missile Defense, Aug. 17).
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