

Aside from the death, injury, and damage caused at the blast site, nuclear fallout is also a concern.


The weapons can range from small portable devices to large weapons carried by missiles. Intentional attacks are carried out by detonating weapons that use a nuclear reaction to create an explosion. Both can occur with very little or no warning at all and can have deadly effects, so it is important to be prepared. Nuclear incidents can be intentional attacks or accidents that occur during transport or at nuclear facilities. A nuclear incident is an event that includes a nuclear occurrence(s) causing bodily harm, sickness, disease, death, or loss of or damage to property, resulting from the radioactive, toxic, explosive, or other hazardous properties of radioactive material.
