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FEMA'S INVOLVEMENT IN

NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL (NBC)/ WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (WMD)

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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

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• 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

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Consequence Management and Law Enforcement Phase at
Peachtree City, Lake Lanier, Georgia Tech, and other locations

• 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

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