Chapter 1Safety 3 -- What Is a Chemical Weapon? -- A Weapon Is a Weapon -- Ten Commonsense Safety Rules for Handling Less-Lethal Weapons -- Material Safety Data Sheets -- Chapter 2 Chemical Weapons and Chemical Agent Weapons: An Overview 7 -- Biological Agents -- Toxins -- Lethal Chemical Agents -- Incapacitating Agents -- Riot Control Agents -- Out-of-Date Munitions -- Chapter 3 Quick-Listing Sheets for Today's Chemical Agent Weapons 21 -- CN -- CS -- OC -- Quick Listing Sheet Usage Key -- Chapter 4 Methods of Delivery: An Overview 25 -- A Word about Words -- Grenades -- Projectiles -- Fog Generators -- Compressed-Gas Projector Systems -- Aerosol Sprays -- Chapter 5 Pyrotechnic Grenade 33 -- Strengths and Weaknesses -- How It Works -- Various Pyrotechnic Grenade Configurations -- Fuze -- Employment of the Pyrotechnic Grenade -- Malfunctions -- Booby Trapping -- "Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Safety" -- Care and Maintenance -- Chapter 6 Instantaneous-Blast Grenades 49 -- How They Work -- Multipurpose Grenade -- Other MPG Delivery Methods -- Instantaneous-Blast Grenades--Strengths and Weaknesses -- Care and Maintenance -- Malfunctioning Instantaneous-Blast Grenades--Recovery Procedure -- Chapter 7 Aerosol Grenades 57 -- Non-fuzed Aerosol Canister Grenade -- Fuzed Aerosol Grenade -- Aerosol Grenades--Strengths and Weaknesses -- Malfunctioning Aerosol Grenade Munitions--Recovery Procedure -- Care and Maintenance -- Chapter 8 Pyrotechnic Projectiles 61 -- How They Work -- Malfunctioning Pyrotechnic Projectile Munitions--Recovery Procedure -- Care and Maintenance -- Chapter 9 Nonpyrotechnic Projectiles 67 -- How They Work -- Nonpyrotechnic Projectile Munitions--Malfunctions -- Care and Maintenance -- Carbone Mark-1 -- Chapter 10 Specialty-Impact Munitions 75 -- A Historical perspective -- When to Use Them -- Use of Force--Reasonable and Necessary? -- Confusion Factors -- Commitment and Training--The Core Considerations -- Types of Specialty-Impact Munitions -- Specialty-Impact Munitions--Malfunctions -- Care and Maintenance -- Chapter 11 Aerosol Subject Restraint Sprays 87 -- Spray Patterns -- Carrier Agents -- Belt-Carried Units: Presentation, Stance, and Grip -- How to Administer It -- What You Can Expect -- Facing the ASR -- Care and Maintenance -- More about Oleoresin Capsaicin -- Chapter 12 Fog Generators 107 -- Thermal Fog Generators -- Fogging -- Care and Maintenance -- Chapter 13 Compressed-Gas Projector Systems 115 -- Use -- Care and Maintenance -- Chapter 14 Gas Launchers 119 -- Subcaliber Weapons Used as Launchers -- Submachine Guns Used as Launchers -- Long Guns Used as Launchers -- Launching Chemical Agent Weapon Hand Grenades with the Gas Launcher -- Multishot Launchers -- Other Launchers -- Safe Carry Skills -- Unintentional Discharge--A Universal Danger -- Basic Rules of Safe Firearms Handling -- Additional Commonsense Rules for Safe Firearms Handling -- Care and Maintenance -- Chapter 15 Weapon Retention 135 -- ASR Retention -- Grenade Retention -- Long-Gun Retention -- Fogger -- Chapter 16 Tactical Employment of Chemical Weapons Outdoors: An Overview 139 -- Situation Evaluation and Tactical Analysis -- Outdoor Incident Preparation and Employment Guidelines -- Post-Incident Guidelines -- Chapter 17 Tactical Employment of Chemical Weapons Indoors: An Overview 149 -- Situation Evaluation and Tactical Analysis -- Preparation -- Calculating for Safety: LCt[subscript 50] and ICt[subscript 50] -- Responsibilities -- Endgame -- Site Decontamination: An Overview -- Indoor Incident Preparation and Employment Guidelines -- Post-Incident Guidelines -- Chapter 18 Protective Masks 155 -- History and Development -- Riot Facelet Mask -- Quick Mask -- Mask Characteristics -- Type-1 Mask -- Type-2 Mask -- Type-3 Mask -- Future -- General Donning Procedure -- General Doffing Procedure -- Use -- Maintenance -- Storage -- More about Filters -- Chapter 19 Maintaining the Chemical Agent Arsenal 181 -- Determination of Various Elements -- Chemical Agent Munitions Officer -- Chemical Agent Munitions Storage Room -- Agent/Munition Selection -- Basic Load Purchase -- Resupply and Inventory Rotation -- Disposal -- Chapter 20 Basic Training Guidance 185 -- Performance Objectives and Task Summaries -- Aerosol Subject Restraint Sprays -- Smoke and Chemical Agent Weapon Devices -- Chemical Agent Protective Mask -- Individual Operation Skills -- Unit Operation Skills -- Appendix A Chemical Compounds/Tables/Toxicity 213 -- Properties of Chemical Agents CN and CS -- Toxicity -- Computing Median lethal Dosage (LCt[subscript 50]) and Median Incapacitating Dosage (ICt[subscript 50]) -- Computing Incapacitating and Lethal Dose Time Limits for CN and CS -- What Does It All Mean?.