Chemical Threat Clustering Tool Fact Sheet

The sheer number of toxic chemicals that could be used by terrorists prohibits a comprehensive, detailed analysis of each possible threat agent. The Chemical Threat Clustering Tool provides an efficient means of analyzing the exhaustive body of possible threats by identifying representative chemical exemplars for use in threat assessments. This tool uses a technically defensible, consistent, and repeatable process for determining how many exemplar threat chemicals are required to represent the exhaustive body of possible threats.