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1.4 Limitations
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... 1.3 SCOPE The scope of this report includes the following: • Extreme events involving CBR agents where extreme events are defined as those that may have at least a citywide effect. • Introduction to the fundamentals of CBR events, including the general types of events; categorization of the threats; and general introduction to the doses, detection, and decontamination of these threat agents.
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