Conducted in conjunction with preparations for managing emergencies that may impact the 1996 Summer Olympic Games • The scenario involves terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Olympic Games with an improvised nuclear device assembled from spent nuclear fuel stolen from an unspecified DOD source. • Terrorists demand a $3,000,000 payment. OBJECTIVES: • To exercise a coordinated US response to a nuclear threat to the 96 Olympics (nuclear material controlled by terrorists) • To validate contingency plans for Olympic security • To exercise incident reporting among the affected parties • To exercise procedures for activation, deployment and integration of Federal, State and local crisis and emergency response teams • To exercise Federal crisis management coordination between National, Regional, State, and Local assets • To exercise public affairs plans, policies, and procedures for managing a terrorist incident • To exercise policies regarding confirmation of presence of nuclear materials • To exercise requirements for consequence management • To form and operate a Joint Operations Center for managing the emergency E • The scenario will be built around a fictional international terrorist organization whose objectives are to disrupt the Olympic Games, and embarrass the United States. As the scenario develops the terrorists will effect the release of a lethal chemical substance The exercise will utilize four separate sites for adversary actions and a law enforcement and/or consequence management response. The dates for the overall exercise will be April 15-18, and the exercise will be conducted in four phases: April 15 Phase I: Tabletop Command Post Exercise Consequence Management and Law Enforcement Phase at • To test the command and control procedures required to coordinate multi-agency resources, and to evaluate the process of transition from a Crisis Management mode (with the FBI as Lead Federal Agency) to Consequence Management mode (with FEMA as lead Federal Agency) • To provide FEMA, PHS and DOD (non-tactical) an opportunity to actively participate in a pre-Olympic exercise involving chemical terrorism • To provide the FBI On Scene Commander and the FBI Command Post the opportunity to operate in a consequence management environment without the on-site deployment of the FBI crisis management resources • To provide the Georgia State Patrol an opportunity to participate in a pre-Olympic crisis and consequences management exercise Utilize a site where the Atlanta Police Department has primary responsibility so as to provide them an opportunity to participate in a joint Field Training Exercise • Provide the Atlanta Division of the FBI with an opportunity to establish a command post at a forward location • To provide tactical teams an opportunity to accomplish a bus assault. Many recent terrorist activities have taken place in and around buses |