Nuclear
This type of radiation is blocked by a leaded suit.
What is gamma radiation?
Fungi, Viruses, Bacteria, and ________ are the four types of biological weapons.
What are toxins?
Fluid building in the lungs is a symptom of this category of chemical agents.
What are choking (pulmonary) agents?
This type of combustion is induced and driven via a shockwave that moves faster than the speed of sound.
What is detonation?
This student experienced a cryogenic burn on her hand when a demonstration went wrong.
Who is Katie Wofford?
This detector utilizes argon gas as a means of detecting nuclear radiation.
What is a Geiger counter?
This biological instrument, commonly found in bio labs across the world, provides the greatest implication of biological material weaponization.
What is a lyophilizer?
This nerve agent treatment works by displacing the chemical agent from acetylcholinesterase, enabling acetylcholine to once again be broken down.
What is oxime?
This type of explosive is usually the first component in an explosive train due to their sensitivity.
What is a primary explosive?
This valiant student has been our section marcher for the entire class.
Who is Ryan Collier?
This step in the nuclear fuel cycle is used to separate U-235 from U-238.
What is enrichment?
This biological detector can distinguish between biological material and nonbiological material using light; however, it is often unable to detect the type of agent.
What is a fluorimeter?
This chemical weapons detection method is only capable of detecting whether specific elements are present, but often presents false alarms due to its inability to detect specific agents.
What is flame photometry?
These key components towards explosives ignition form via material impurities, trapped gas bubbles, and grain boundaries.
What are hotspots?
This scientist within Cheyenne Mountain escorted our class, providing a dry sense of humor during the AFTAC briefing.
Who is Dr. Brent Matterson?
This nuclear weapon type is mostly a fission weapon with a small amount of fusionable material inside.
What is a boosted weapon?
This biological agent releases three exotoxins as a part of its mechanism of action: PA, EF, and LF.
What is anthrax?
This organization is the nation's premier institute for Chem-Bio Defense.
What is DEVCOM? (Also accepted: ECBC-CBC or Edgewood)
This explosives detection method is often highly touted because of it's high mobility and sense of smell.
What are trained animals?
This delightful candy was served to you on a radioactive plate.
What are sour patch kids/swedish fish?
If 100 grams of a radioactive isotope has a half-life of 16 years, this amount of material will remain after 32 years.
What is 25 grams?
This RNA strand is an engineered form of guide RNA that forms a complex with Cas9 and is essential to proper cutting of a DNA strand.
What is sgRNA (single guide RNA)?
This is the most common method for the destruction of chemical warfare agents.
What is neutralization?
These two components are the factors that impact the explosive power of a material.
What is heat of reaction and moles of gas produced?
This guest lecturer demonstrated their operational Air Force explosives experience with several demonstrations and artifacts.
Who is Lt Col Kappe?