CHEM260 Forensic Chemical Analysis

Bomb Training Excercise 15 points Due 04/17/06

You have been hired as a consultant to plan a bomb training exercise for the city of Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management & Communications. You have been given the authority to plan any sort of bomb emergency that you want to. “Surprise us,” they said.

1) You will need to choose a target. Give the reasoning for choosing your target.

2) You will need to determine the type of (fake) bomb you will use such as pipe bomb, ANFO car bomb, Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb, or Dirty (Radioactive) Bomb. Write a paragraph or two about how this particular type of bomb is made, what kind of bomber is likely to make this type of bomb, and its strengths and/or weaknesses from a bomber’s point of view.

3) How will the bomb squad be alerted? Are you going to phone it in, email it in, or do something more creative like having a suspicious person be apprehended somewhere downtown or finding a cache of explosives in the trunk of a vehicle that has been picked up on a traffic violation?

4) What training objectives do you want to stress?

Training objectives may include but are not limited to:

· First alert. What is done when it becomes apparent that a bomb has been planted somewhere in the city.

· Bomb location/detection. Who will do the searching? Where will they search. How will they search?

· Crowd control. How is the removal of people in danger done? How are gawkers kept out of the harm’s way?

· Decision making. Who makes the decisions and at what level?

· Bomb disarming

· Safety practices by team

· Communication. How well is communication at different levels handled?

Be as specific as you can. The brevity of the assignment requires that you prioritize and organize your responses.

No-more-than 2 pages of readable and informative script, please.

Reference your sources:

No more than 10% of the assignment may be “direct quotes.”

Resources:

CNN – Pipe Bombs: http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/27/pipe.bomb.explain/

“Bombs and School Security” http://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/school-bombs.html

John Kennish - Preparing for Bomb Threats: http://kennish.com/bombthreat/

How E-Bombs Work: http://science.howstuffworks.com/e-bomb.htm
How Dirty Bombs Work: http://science.howstuffworks.com/dirty-bomb.htm

Wikipedia - Pipe Bomb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_bomb

Court TV’s Crime Library http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/index.html
“Protecting Public Surface Transportation Against Terrorism and Serious Crime:
Continuing Research on Best Security Practices” http://transweb.sjsu.edu/publications/terrorism_final.htm