You are teaching an EMT class about the role of an EMS response to a terror attack involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD). A student asks you what constitutes a WMD. You would inform him that a WMD is any:

A) agent used to cause indiscriminate death and destruction.
B) weapon used to create fear and panic among the general population.
C) agent that is intended to kill a specific segment of the population.
D) biological agent that kills people and animals but does not destroy property.


A

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