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Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)


Self Description

June 2005: "...Defense Threat Reduction Agency. In the post-Cold War environment, a unified, consistent approach to deterring, reducing and countering weapons of mass destruction is essential to maintaining our national security. Under DTRA, Department of Defense resources, expertise and capabilities are combined to ensure the United States remains ready and able to address the present and future WMD threat. We perform four essential functions to accomplish our mission: combat support, technology development, threat control and threat reduction."

http://www.dtra.mil/about/index.cfm

June 2002: "In the post-Cold War environment, a unified, consistent approach to deterring, reducing and countering weapons of mass destruction is essential to maintaining our national security. Under DTRA, Department of Defense resources, expertise and capabilities are combined to ensure the United States remains ready and able to address the present and future WMD threat. We perform four essential functions to accomplish our mission: combat support, technology development, threat control and threat reduction." (http://www.dtra.mil/about/ab_index.html)

Third-Party Descriptions

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Owned by (partial or full, past or present) Department of Defense (DOD)/Defense Department Organization Jun 9, 2005
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Dr. James A. Tegnelia Person Feb 8, 2007
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Stephen M. Younger Person

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Aug 16, 2007 Review of Radiation Detectors Questioned

QUOTE: The Government Accountability Office has questioned the department's testing of the detection equipment, spurring Congress to delay funding last year pending further review and certification of the department's test results this fall.

 Washington Post
Feb 07, 2007 Legacy of Radiation Illness Stirs Objection to Nevada Bomb Test: Blast Won't Be Nuclear, but Many Fear Contaminated Dust

QUOTE: At a series of emotional meetings last month in Las Vegas, St. George, Salt Lake City and the Idaho capital of Boise, people who live downwind of the Nevada Test Site expressed fear that if the government goes ahead with its code-named Divine Strake test, radioactive dust from previous tests will blow their way.

 Washington Post
Jun 10, 2002 Bush Developing Military Policy Of Striking First: New Doctrine Addresses Terrorism

QUOTE: ...new strategic doctrine that moves away from the Cold War pillars of containment and deterrence toward a policy that supports preemptive attacks against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

 Washington Post