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Jul 30 - DTRA-Supported Vanderbilt Team Finds Potent Antibodies Against Three Ebola Viruses
Jul 29 - How South Africa Built Nuclear Weapons (And Then Gave Them Up)
Jul 27 - Flexible electronics are the key to a human 'check engine' light -- DTRA and Johns Hopkins University seek advance notice of bio infection
Jul 26 - Measure targets weapons of mass destruction
Jul 25 - US, Japan and South Korea practice investigating ships for WMD material
Jul 25 - Tepco probe to directly touch melted fuel debris at Fukushima nuclear power plant
Jul 25 - U.S. and France Implement Sanctions to Fight Chemical Warfare in Syria
Jul 24 - California wines contain Fukushima radiation, and it's not a bad thing
Jul 23 - U.S. STRATCOM to take over responsibility for nuclear command, control and communications
Jul 18 - 'This is just the beginning': Using DNA and genealogy to crack years-old cold cases -- DTRA pushed, funded the research almost a decade ago to stop terrorists
Jul 18 - Public-private partnership aims to develop novel oral antibiotic -- DTRA and HHS working with Spero Therapeutics
Jul 17 - Smallpox Drug Developed With DTRA Support WIll Be Stockpiled By U.S. Gov't In Case Of Bioterrorism Attack
Jul 17 - COUNTER IED: DEFEATING THE UNSEEN
Jul 17 - A Second Skin for the First Layer of Defense
Jul 17 - Tpoxx receives FDA approval for treatment of smallpox -- Multiagency effort supported by DTRA, BARDA, CDC and more
Jul 17 - Oasis of Data in the SAHARA
Jul 17 - Before the Battlefield: Competition Spurs Warfighter Innovations
Jul 9 - Pentagon's AI Program to Find Hidden Nuclear Missiles
Jul 9 - Fed lab releases 250+ never-before-seen declassified nuclear test videos
Jul 6 - "Roadmap for Implementing Biosecurity and Biodefense Policy in the United States"
Jul 6 - Japan Executes Cult Leader Responsible for 1995 Sarin Gas Attack on Tokyo Subway That Killed 13, Sickened 6,000+
Jul 5 - Two More Victims of Soviet-Era Nerve Agent Poisoned in British Town
Jul 4 - Army Demos New Method for Testing Explosives Stored in Nuclear Weapons
Jul 4 - NATO Seeks C-IED Electronic Countermeasure Systems
Jul 1 - Bolton Says U.S. Has a Plan to Dismantle North Korea's Nuclear Program in a Year
Jun 29 - Mattis says Japan-U.S. committed to ending North Korea's WMD
Jun 28 - DoD Honors Value Engineering Achievement Award Recipients -- DTRA Just ! of 3 Agencies to Win Award
Jun 27 - Trading Lab Coats and Goggles for MOPP Suits and Gas Masks
Jun 27 - Detecting chem. weapons with LEGOS?
Jun 27 - Blurring Science and Data Offers Clear Results in the Field
Jun 26 - Partnerships enhance Jordan's security amid weapons of mass destruction threat
Jun 18 - Col. Padilla Takes Helm as New DTRA Site Director at Kirtland AFB
Jun 14 - Bats Help Solve Marburg Mystery
Jun 5 - DTRA's Ultrasound-Powered Nanorobots Clear Bacteria and Toxins From Blood
Jun 4 - The Navy Might Soon Have a New Nuclear Weapon for Its Missile Submarines
May 22 - Maj. Gen. Christopher Bentley Named Next Director of DTRA's JIDO
May 22 - Port of Stockton holds weapons of mass destruction drill
May 16 - Inspectors Confirm 'Likely' Use of Chlorine as Chemical Weapon in Syria in February
May 14 - Could North Korea's nuclear weapon arsenal end up in Tennessee?
May 4 - Novichok Chemical Weapon Developer Says Half a Cup Would Have Killed Skripal and Entire Town
May 3 - How Butterflies Can Detect Deadly Chemical Weapon Agents
May 2 - Changing World Situation Requires Resilient Nuclear Posture, DoD Official Says
Apr 30 - DTRA Supports Ethiopia's Capacity to Help Prevent and Address Global Disease Outbreaks
Apr 30 - How DTRA is Helping to Create Generation STEM
Apr 29 - On the Leading EDGE of Innovation -- New Tools Could Help Protect U.S. Troops from Chemical and Biological Threats
Apr 26 - Korean leaders aim for end of war, 'complete denuclearization' after historic summit
Apr 24 - Can artificial intelligence help U.S. SOCOM track weapons of mass destruction?
Apr 24 - General Goldfein: Convert Tankers to Extend Air Force 'Nuke Sniffer' Mission
Apr 21 - Chemical Weapons Inspectors Finally Gain Access to Douma -- OPCW visiting Syrian city more than two weeks after suspected chemical attack
Apr 21 - North Korea, Setting Stage for Talks, Halts Nuclear, ICBM Tests
Apr 20 - Chemical weapons coverup suspected in Syria as inspectors remain blocked
Apr 19 - Strikes Successful Against Syrian Chemical Weapons, DoD Officials Say
Apr 14 - Joined by Allies, President Trump Takes Action to End Syria's Chemical Weapons Attacks
Apr 14 - Pentagon Officials Describe Syria Strikes, Hope Assad Gets Message
Apr 13 - U.S., Allies Strike Syrian Targets in Response to Regime's Chemical Attacks
Apr 13 - These Are Syria's Chemical Weapons. Here's How To Destroy Them
Apr 12 - DTRA, UK partner to train 48th FW in CFE inspection event
Apr 4 - Pacific Soldiers build relationships through radiological training taught by DTRA, 10th WMD Civil Support Team
Mar 30 - Early Warning Tools Needed for Chem-Bio Defense
Mar 26 - DTRA Director, Jordan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet to discuss current, future cooperation
Mar 26 - The US military is now advancing a tactical Ebola vaccine
Mar 15 - Resistance is Futile: Defeating Antibiotic Overuse
Mar 6 - Tunisia's Border Wall Gets Technological Support
Feb 16 - New Recipies for Decontamination
Feb 16 - Of Mice to Men: First Melioidosis Vaccine on the Horizon
Feb 15 - Professors study bacteria fighting method for DTRA
Feb 10 - USAF commissions Boeing to build more MOPs - 30,000 lb. extreme bunker buster was developed under DTRA and turned over to Air Force in 2010
Feb 6 - DTRA turns over modern 'coast watch' building to Palawan
Jan 18 - DTRA-Supported Genetic Sequencing Points to Endemic Origin of Monkeypox Virus Outbreak in Nigeria
Jan 2 - Going Underground: The U.S. Government's Hunt for Enemy Tunnels
Jan 2 - DoD wants your ideas on how to operate, navigate underground
Jan 1 - ISIS supporters in Malaysia may build bombs with radioactive materials