Senior Defense Officials Discuss the Iran Nuclear Facilities Bombing

SENIOR DOD MILITARY OFFICIAL: DTRA [Defense Threat Reduction Agency] is the U.S. government's and the Joint Force's insurance policy against a global dynamic and increasingly complex threat of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons of mass destruction. DTRA has a proud history. It traces its origins all the way back to the Manhattan Project. The agency you know today was formally established in 1998 through the merger of other counter WMD [weapons of mass destruction] agencies around the DOD. Initially focused on nuclear weapons development and treaty compliance, DTRA's mission expanded to address emerging threats. Basically, we are the department's centralized area nexus whe...