Zach Nunn: “The focus of efforts to significantly improve our ability to manage the consequences of a terrorist incidence, however…”

“The focus of efforts to significantly improve our ability to manage the consequences of a terrorist incidence, however, should be on the first response by local police, fire, and rescue organizations. Local authorities need quick access to NBC detection--that is nuclear, biological, chemical-- and decontamination and transport equipment. When an incidence involving NBC materials is suspected, lack of timely arrival in well trained, community based teams, fully equipped with the state of art equipment, could cost thousands of lives in most communities today across the Nation. These casualties would include unacceptable numbers of irreplaceable emergency personnel. So I think the heart of what we are trying to do is also in this joint report. I think the report is entitled 'Preparedness and Response to a Nuclear, Radiological, Biological, Chemical Terrorist Attack.'”