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8.6 Proactive Response to Catastrophic Incidents
Prior to catastrophic incidents, state and federal governments should create mod-
els of detailed terrorism and disaster activity scenarios qualitatively and quantita-
tively equivalent to the combat zones presented in Chapter 7. en, they should
take proactive actions to mobilize assets in anticipation of a formal request from
the state for federal assistance. ey should not wait until some minor or major
unfavorable events take place. Such deployment of federal assets would likely
occur for catastrophic events involving terror threats, disasters, or high-yield
explosive WMD or other catastrophic incidents aecting heavily populated
area