"The events of September 11, 2001, catalyzed a long-recognized terror threat and heightened global concern regarding the management and creation of weapons of mass destruction in the post-Cold War era. The US Army Medical, in conjunction with other U.S. military commands and military health services, government agencies, and our allies, has undertaken ambitious programs to meet the unique nuclear and radiation threats that have grown increasingly complex in today's world. The other long-standing nuclear realities include industrial radiation leaks and associated potential catastrophic events caused by human error and natural disasters, such as the earthquake and tsunami that resulted in the disaster at the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Continual global conversation and collaboration among principal entities is needed to improve medical doctrine and policy that not only addresses combat operations, but how military medicine influences and works with other agencies -international, federal, state, and local - in large-scale, multi-agency responses ... As past if often prologue, then preparedness is essential." -- From the forward (page xii)

Foreword by Patricia D. Horoho, Lieutenant General, US Army, The Surgeon General and Commanding General, US Army Medical Command.

Radiological events and their consequences /Charles R. Woodruff Jr., Leonard A. Alt, C. Douglas Forcino, and Richard I. Walker -- Acute radiation syndrome in humans / Ronald E. Goans and Daniel F. Flynn -- Triage and treatment of radiation and combined-injury mass casualties / Daniel F. Flynn and Ronald E. Goans -- Treatment of internal radionuclide contamination / John F. Kalinich -- Therapy for bacterial infections following ionizing radiation injury / Thomas B. Elliott and G. David Ledney -- Early-phase biological dosimetry / William F. Blakely -- Behavioral and neurophysiological consequences of radiation exposure / Andre Obenaus, G. Andrew Mickley, Victor Bogo, Bruce R. West, and Jacob Raber -- Psychological issues in a radiological or nuclear attack / Steven M. Becker -- Late and low-level effects of ionizing radiation / Alexandra C. Miller, Merriline Satyamitra, Shilpa Kulkarni, and Thomas Walden -- Radiological considerations in medical operations / John P. Madrid -- Perspectives in radiological and nuclear countermeasures / K. Sree Kumar, Juliann G. Kiang, Mark H. Whitnall, and Martin Hauer-Jensen -- Cytogenetic biodosimetry / Pataje G.S. Prasanna and C. Norman Coleman.