Local Planning for Terror and Disaster gives voice toexperts in key fields involved with local preparedness, assessingthe quality of preparedness in each field, and offering directionsfor improvement. Introductory chapters provide overviews ofterror medicine, security and communications, which areindispensable to successful preparedness, while subsequent chaptersconcentrate on a particular field and how responders from thatfield communicate and interact with others during and after anevent. Thus, a chapter by a physician discusses not onlythe doctor's role but how that role is, or should be, coordinatedwith emergency medical technicians and police. Similarly,chapters by law enforcement figures also review policeresponsibilities and interactions with nurses, EMTs, volunteers andother relevant responders.Developed from topics at recent Symposia on Terror Medicine andSecurity, Local Planning also encompasses aspects ofemergency and disaster medicine, as well as techniques fordiagnosis, rescue, coordination and security that are distinctiveto a terrorist attack. Each chapter also includesa case study that demonstrates preparedness, or lack thereof,for a real or hypothetical event, including lessons learned, nextsteps, and areas for improvement in this globalera which increasingly calls for preparedness at a locallevel.