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Disarmament Diplomacy
Issue No. 26, May 1998
New DoD WMD Agency
On 19 May, the US Defense Department announced the establishment of
a new agency - the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) - to
elaborate and coordinate counter-proliferation policy. The DTRA
will be officially inaugurated on 1 October 1998, headed by nuclear
physicist Dr. Jay C. Davis, currently Associate Director for Earth
and Environmental Sciences at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. According to a DoD press release: "Countering WMD
proliferation may represent the most important security challenge
of the next decade. DTRA will be the Department's focal point for
addressing this complex and comprehensive problem. The new agency
is to be formed by consolidating the On-Site Inspection Agency, the
Defense Special Weapons Agency, the Defense Technology Security
Administration, and some program functions for the Secretary of
Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs."
Reports: Text - New Pentagon Agency to deal with
proliferation threat, United States Information Service, 19
May.
© 1998 The Acronym Institute.
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