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Detecting Weapons of Mass Destruction discusses the most up to date equipment and technologies used in WMD sampling and monitoring. It is designed for special operations units such as hazmat teams, bomb squads, tactical units, National Guard troops, and others who may be called upon to carry out monitoring and sampling activities at a suspected WMD incident.
Stressing safety, the program describes the complexities of detecting for weapons of mass destruction. It explains detection priorities and the technologies used to monitor for radiation, explosives, chemical weapons and biological weapons. The advantages and limitations of each type of technology is discussed. The focus is on equipment used as part of initial emergency response operations, rather than laboratory instruments or resources that may be prepositioned for an event. The program tells how to avoid false positives, and how to document findings.
Among the technologies examined are dosimeters, radiation pagers, contamination survey instruments, bomb dogs, ion mobility spectrometry, mass spectrometry, high speed chromotography, M8 and M9 paper, the M256A1 wet chemistry kit, Hazmat Smart Strips, flame spectroscopy, Surface Acoustic Wave Chemical Agent Detectors, detector tubes, gas chromotography, combustible gas indicators, biological sampling kits, polymerase chain reaction, infrared spectroscopy, and stand-off monitoring systems.
Detecting Weapons of Mass Destruction was filmed in Massachusetts and New York with the assistance of over 20 major instrument manufacturers and was shot with the Cambridge, MA Fire Department, the Bourne, MA Fire Department, and the Orange County NY Hazmat Team.
Purchase includes
a Guide intended to assist emergency organizations in evaluating and selecting
the equipment that is available for the purpose of detecting terrorist
agents. The Guide includes product sheets and specifications submitted
by manufacturers of the equipment depicted in the program. Also included
is a copy of the script for reference.
