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  • initialism US, military Defense Threat Reduction Agency

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  • The DTRA is known to be interested in a payload for the 84mm SMAW rocket launcher for agent defeat; at present, ground forces have no tactical options for dealing with a suspected chemical/biological lab operated by terrorists or others.

    “Kinetic Fireball Incendiaries” « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2008

  • Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency, or DTRA, which is tasked with tackling WMD threats.

    Wired Top Stories 2008

  • The conference included participants from NASA, DTRA, USAF, AFRL, DHS, DIA, LLNL, Sandia, and NSF as well as the National Academies National Research Council which is now conducting a review of NEO discovery and deflection for the Congress.

    October 26th, 2008 m_francis 2008

  • DTRA, however, clearly is in the war prevention business, and, when one prevents a war, one has peace.

    MO-07: Blunt: Dems Are Plotting To Establish "Department Of Peace" 2009

  • The DTRA acknowledges that the fireball project progressed under an SBIR program completed in

    Wired Top Stories 2008

  • It appears that each and every DTRA test - with the exception of the cancelled Tunnel Target Defeat Program 'Divine Strake' test – was categorically excluded from further NEPA review.

    The Un-killable Nevada Bomb Test 2008

  • I contacted Mahaffy directly about the fireball technology, but he was understandably unable to comment even on uses not related to the DTRA work.

    Wired Top Stories 2008

  • Since that February 2008 decision, DTRA has had the green light to continue its experiments at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in the Tunnel Target Defeat Program of which Divine Strake was to be the 'large-scale' event.

    The Un-killable Nevada Bomb Test 2008

  • DTRA would not comment on any more recent developments.

    Wired Top Stories 2008

  • The DTRA is known to be interested in a payload for the 84mm SMAW rocket launcher for agent defeat; at present, ground forces have no tactical options for dealing with a suspected chemical / biological lab operated by terrorists or others.

    Wired Top Stories 2008

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