Leonard A. Cole & Nancy D. Connell 
Local Planning for Terror and Disaster 
From Bioterrorism to Earthquakes

Local Planning for Terror and Disaster gives voice to
experts in key fields involved with local preparedness, assessing
the quality of preparedness in each field, and offering directions
for improvement. Introductory chapters provide overviews of
terror medicine, security and communications, which are
indispensable to successful preparedness, while subsequent chapters
concentrate on a particular field and how responders from that
field communicate and interact with others during and after an
event. Thus, a chapter by a physician discusses not only
the doctor’s role but how that role is, or should be, coordinated
with emergency medical technicians and police. Similarly,
chapters by law enforcement figures also review police
responsibilities and interactions with nurses, EMTs, volunteers and
other relevant responders.

Developed from topics at recent Symposia on Terror Medicine and
Security, Local Planning also encompasses aspects of
emergency and disaster medicine, as well as techniques for
diagnosis, rescue, coordination and security that are distinctive
to a terrorist attack. Each chapter also includes
a case study that demonstrates preparedness, or lack thereof,
for a real or hypothetical event, including lessons learned, next
steps, and areas for improvement in this global
era which increasingly calls for preparedness at a local
level.

Innehållsförteckning

CONTRIBUTORS vii

PROLOGUE xi

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii

PART I INTRODUCTION: THE KNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN

1 Preparedness, Uncertainty, and Terror Medicine 3
Leonard A. Cole

2 Bioterrorism and the Communication of Uncertainty 17
Leonard A. Cole, Laura H. Kahn, and Peter M. Sandman

3 Responding to Disaster and Terrorism: The Central Role of Communication 29
Steven M. Becker

PART II HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

4 The Role of the Emergency Physician 47
Emily G. Kidd, Donald H. Jenkins, and Craig A. Manifold

5 The Role of the Nurse 61
Dian Dowling Evans, Samuel E. Shartar, and James W. Gordon

6 The Role of the Dentist 71
David L. Glotzer

7 The Role of the Emergency Medical Technician 83
Brendan Mc Cluskey and Henry P. Cortacans

8 The Role of the Mental Health Professional 95
Ann E. Norwood, Lisa M. Brown, and Gerard A. Jacobs

PART III INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT

9 The Role of the Manager of Mass Casualty and Disaster Events 111
Shmuel C. Shapira and Limor Aharonson-Daniel

10 The Role of Public Health 123
Henry Falk and Isaac Ashkenazi

11 The Role of the Hospital Receiver 139
Mark A. Merlin

12 Managing Traumatic Stress 153
Steven M. Crimando

PART IV SUPPORT AND SECURITY

13 The Role of the On-Scene Bystander and Survivor 165
Bruria Adini

14 The Role of the Trained Volunteer 177
Brenda D. Phillips, Njoki Mwarumba, and Debra Wagner

15 Bioterrorism, Biosecurity, and the Laboratory 189
Nancy D. Connell and James Netterwald

16 The Role of the Law Enforcement Officer 201
Graeme R. Newman and Ronald V. Clarke

17 A Model Case of Counterterrorism: Thwarting a Subway Bombing 215
Joshua Sinai

18 The Newest Security Threat: Cyber-Conflict 227
Panayotis A. Yannakogeorgos

PART V CONCLUSION

19 Preparedness, Black Swans, and Salient Themes 241
Nancy D. Connell and Leonard A. Cole

Index 249

Om författaren

Dr. Leonard Cole is an adjunct professor of political
science at Rutgers University-Newark, NJ, and director of the
Program on Terror Medicine and Security at UMDNJ’s Center for
Bio Defense. He has published widely on terrorism-related
subjects including chapters in two recent Wiley volumes: Suicide
Terror and Bacillus Anthracis and Anthrax. His
most recent books are The Anthrax Letters (revised edition,
2009) and Essentials of Terror Medicine (co-editor, 2009). A
full list of works by Dr. Cole is available on his website
www.leonardcole.com.

Dr. Nancy Connell is professor of infectious disease at
the Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey. She is director of UMDNJ’s Center for Bio Defense,
has authored numerous scientific articles, and has served on
national and regional panels concerning biosecurity.
Currently, she is a member of the National Academy of Sciences
committee on the ’Review of the Scientific Approaches Used by the
FBI During Its Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Mailings.’