Manmade or technological disasters are unpredictable, can spread across geographical boundaries, may be unpreventable, and may have limited physical damage but long-term effects. Some disasters in ...

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Explosions can inflict multi-system life-threatening injuries to many persons simultaneously. Multiple factors contribute to the injury patterns which result from blasts. Contributing factors include ...