Chapter 9 Flashcards
What are the three types of antipersonnel agents, broadly speaking? (Page 9-3)
Casualty, incapacitating, and harassing
What type of antipersonnel agents do nerve, blister, choking, and blood agents fall into? (Page 9-3)
Casualty
What type of agent renders personnel incapable of performing their duties by interfering with the mental processes that control bodily functions? (Page 9-3)
Nonlethal incapacitating
The effects of tear gas disappear in how many minutes after the person dons a protective mask or gets to fresh air? (Page 9-3)
5-10
What is the most efficient means of delivering biological agents on a large scale? (Page 9-4)
Aerosols
The effects of nuclear weapons are divided into what three categories? (Page 9-4)
Blast, heat, and nuclear radiation
Second degree burns may be received at distances of how many miles or more depending on the size of the nuclear weapon? (Page 9- 5)
25
Permanent damage to your eyes caused by burns from thermal radiation may occur how many or more miles from a large-yield nuclear weapon? (Page 9-5)
40
Flash blindness is normally of temporary nature since the eyes can recover in about 15 minutes in the daytime and in about how many minutes at night? (Page 9-5)
45
Nuclear radiation consists of four types: alpha particles, beta particles, neutrons, and what else? (Page 9-5)
Gamma rays
Radiation hazards are of three types: penetration dose, skin dose, and what else? (Page 9-5)
Internal contamination
What is the most hazardous form of radiation? (Page 9-5)
Gamma rays
What type of agent contamination symptoms include runny nose, tightness of chest, contraction of eye pupils, nausea, cramps, headaches, coma, and convulsions? (Page 9-6)
Nerve
Redness of the skin follows in one half hour to how many hours after exposure to mustard vapor? (Page 9-6)
36
When the victim inhales a high concentration of a blood agent, the victim begins to breathe more deeply within a few seconds, has violent convulsions after 20 to 30 seconds, and stops breathing regularly within what time frame? (Page 9-7)
1 minute
What is the most effective tear agent causing incapacitation 20 to 60 seconds after exposure? (Page 9-8)
O-Chlorobenzylidene Malononitrile (CS)
What type of agents can cause mental symptoms and may also produce physical symptoms, such as a staggering gait, dizziness, and blurred vision? (Page 9-8)
Incapacitating