Assessing medical preparedness to respond to a terrorist nuclear event : workshop report / Committee on Medical Preparedness for a Terrorist Nuclear Event ; Georges C. Benjamin, Michael McGeary and Susan R. McCutchen, editors ; Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

"A nuclear attack on a large U.S. city by terrorists--even with a low-yield improvised nuclear device (IND) of 10 kilotons or less--would cause a large number of deaths and severe injuries. The large number of injured from the detonation and radioactive fallout that would follow would be overwh...

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