Overview of incidents involving mass-casualty weapons

[Zipporah Schumaker]

Mass-casualty weapons are weapons that can produce a mass-casualty incident. Mass-casualty incidents overwhelm available medical resources because they involve so many injured people (casualties). Mass-casualty weapons include a variety of

Chemicals
Toxins
Biological (infectious) agents
Radiation sources
Explosives

Mass-casualty weapons are sometimes called weapons of mass destruction (WMD). However, the term