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Medical threat is the composite of all ongoing or potential enemy actions and environmental conditions that will reduce combat effectiveness through wounding, injuring, causing disease, and/or degrading performance. Soldiers are the targets of these threats. Weapons or environmental conditions that will generate wounded, injured, and sick soldiers, beyond the capability of the HSS system to provide timely medical care from available resources, are considered major medical threats. Weapons or environmental conditions that produce qualitatively different wound or disease processes are also major medical threats. Added to the combat operational and disease and nonbattle injury (DNBI) medical threats are adversary use of the following types of weapons, agents, and devices:

 Biological warfare agents.

 Chemical warfare agents.

 Nuclear weapons.

 Toxic industrial materials.

 Radiological dispersal devices.

 Directed-energy devices/weapons.

 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives.