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STUDY GUIDE QUESTIO N S CRITICAL THINK ING

1. \,Vhat are conventional weapons? 1. In the slimmer 2002 hit movie 5/111/ of Alf Fears, a nuclear
device was detonated by terrorists in the city of Baltimore,
2. \Vhat are some examples of the lise of chemical and biological
lvlaryland. Research the likely effects of the explosion of
warfare in ancient times?
a 10-kiloton nuclear device in or near a city the size of
3. "Vhat has tended to keep the use of chemical and biological Baltimore in the United States. \Vhat would be the lethal
agents in check in modern wartiue?
radius of such a device, and how might the citizens of the
4. "Vhat ('vents began the age of nuclear warfare in the closing place prepare to defend themselves against the eA-ects of such
days of World War II' a blast if some advance warning was received?
5. \,Vho poses the greatest threat in the lise of C13R wcapons 2. Research why an effective large-scale chemical or biological
today? attack would be very difficult to effectively plan and carry Ollt
under most circumstances.
6. \,Vhat is chemical warfare?
3. Research some of the modern devices that could be used to
7. ""hat are the most common types of C\V agents?
give warning of an attack by chemical weapons. \Vhat are
8. \Vhat is biological warfare?
some of the countermeasures that can be llsed against sllch an
9. \'\'hat does nuclear warfare involve? attack by troops on the ground and ships at sea?
10. \·Vhat are the effects ti'om the explosion of a nuclear warhead?
11. \,Vhat are the three types of nuclear bursts to which a ship ma)' VOCABU L ARY
be exposed?
conventional wcapons psycho gas
12. What are the three phases of shipboard CBR
special weapons tear gas
decontamination?
weapons of mass destruction "dirty bomb"
CWagent aerosol
BWagent thermal radiation
nerve gas fallout
blister gas base surge
blood gas dosimeter
radiac EMP