{"id":226102,"date":"2023-02-11T19:42:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T14:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=226102"},"modified":"2023-02-22T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:20:21","slug":"exercise-tarkash-first-time-india-us-exercise-includes-response-to-nuke-bio-terror-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/exercise-tarkash-first-time-india-us-exercise-includes-response-to-nuke-bio-terror-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Tarkash: First time, India-US exercise includes response to nuke &#038; bio terror attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cFirst time, India-US exercise includes response to nuke &amp; bio terror attacks\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on <b>11th February 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exercise Tarkash between India and US is currently underway in Chennai.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Exercise Tarkash?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a counterterrorism Exercise between India\u2019s National Security Guard(NSG) and US Special Operations Forces(SOF).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rapidly neutralize the terrorists, rescue the hostages safely and deactivate the chemical weapons being carried by the terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> For the first time, the exercise included Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) terror response in its drill.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear(CBRN) weapons?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CBRN weapons which are also classified as weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have been used by States and terror elements in the past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most recent use of CBRN in the form of a sarin gas attack was witnessed in Syria in 2017 when more than 100 people died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/weapons-of-mass-destruction-wmds-and-indias-stance\/\"><b>Click here to read more\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cFirst time, India-US exercise includes response to nuke &amp; bio terror attacks\u201d published in Indian Express on 11th February 2023. What is the News? Exercise Tarkash between India and US is currently underway in Chennai. What is Exercise Tarkash? It is a counterterrorism Exercise between India\u2019s National&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/exercise-tarkash-first-time-india-us-exercise-includes-response-to-nuke-bio-terror-attacks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exercise Tarkash: First time, India-US exercise includes response to nuke &#038; bio terror attacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11204,164,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-226102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-defence-exercises","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701482883},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}