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Editorial Commentary: Preventing Fatalities in Building Bombings: What Can We Learn From the Oklahoma City Bombing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2013

Kobi Peleg*
Affiliation:
Director, Israeli National Center for Trauma and Emergency Medicine

Abstract

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Type
Original Research and Critical Analysis
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2007

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