Studies in Disaster Preparedness
The syllabus specifies that you “select a man-made or natural disaster NOT already discussed in this course.” For planning purposes, the disasters discussed in this course include:

The SL-1 and Chernobyl nuclear accidents;
The 1989 Loma Prieta, California, and 2011 Mineral, Virginia, earthquakes;
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1994 Oklahoma City bombing;
Hurricane Katrina;
The Greenburg, Kansas, and Joplin, Missouri, tornados;
The 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India;
The 2008 Imperial Sugar explosion in Georgia;
And the 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion.

select a disaster other than these for evaluation in your paper. PLEASE: DO NOT select the terrorist attacks of 9-11. You cannot possibly conduct an analysis of that man-made disaster in the length limitations proposed in the syllabus for your paper.