Government Information

Earl Gregg Swem Library

Mighty Derringer

Categories: Homeland Security,Nuclear Arms,WMD

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb380/

Describes a fictional exercise in 1986 to test federal agency abilities to cope with a nuclear terrorist incident in an American city.  Consists of more than 60 documents which cover the background, preparations, exercise, and subsequent critiques.  From declassified documents posted by the National Security Archive