Ellipse Alpha
The Department of Energy Emergency Response program provides a national capability to respond to any radiological emergency or nuclear accident within the United States and abroad. During June 1998, emergency response assets participated in an interagency exercise ELLIPSE ALPHA. The objective of the exercise was to evaluate the federal capabilities of responding to a domestic radiological Weapon of Mass Destruction. In September 1998, Departmental emergency assets also participated in a major overseas exercise ELLIPSE BRAVO. The objective of the exercise was to evaluate and validate the U.S. federal response to a radiological Weapon of Mass Destruction in an international environment.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had some success in large scale interagency exercises, when they have been properly organized. FEMA and the FBI worked on ideas that came out of Exercise Ellipse Alpha in Norfolk, Virginia in June 1998 and, to some extent, Exercise West Wind in Los Angeles in February 1999.
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