Topoff

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"...In May 2000, at the direction of Congress, and in collaboration with FEMA, the Office conducted TOPOFF, which stands for "Top Officials" the largest WMD terrorism exercise ever in the United States, and the first national exercise that involved top Federal and state government officials. TOPOFF was a congressionally-mandated no-notice exercise designed to test the government's response to a large scale, domestic weapon of mass destruction crisis. The exercise, which included participation by officials in federal, state and local government, involved a biological consequence management scenario in Denver, Colorado, a chemical crisis response effort, involving the military, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and a radiological weapon attack in the National Capital Region, which comprises Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. The Capital Region scenario focused primarily on consequence management and was treated as an adjunct to the TOPOFF exercise..." http://www.senate.gov/~appropriations/commerce/testimony/agterror.htm Joint Hearing on U.S. Federal Efforts to Combat Terrorism (May 9, 2001) (-> Terror exercises)