Defense Threat Reduction Agency: Selected Reports
The mission of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency is "to safeguard America and its allies from weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high yield explosives) by providing capabilities to reduce, eliminate and counter the threat, and mitigate its effects."
Most of the following unclassified reports were previously made available on the DTRA website, but since links to many of the reports (particularly those sponsored by the DTRA Advanced Systems and Concepts Office) were removed, they are being republished here.
- Thwarting an Evil Genius, April 2009
- Assuring South Korea and Japan as the Role and Number of U.S. Nuclear Weapons are Reduced, January 2011
- Advanced Technology Acquisition Strategies of the People's Republic of China, September 2010
- Enhancing Public Resilience to Mass-Casualty WMD Terrorism in the United States, June 2010
- Operations Research for Deterrence and Strategic Influence Analysis, March 2010
- The Influence of Uncertainty about National Missile Defense Performance on Deterrence During a Crisis, June 2009
- Cooperative Threat Reduction, Fiscal Year 2009, annual report to Congress
- Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program Science and Technology Strategy, September 24, 2007
- Terrifying Landscapes: A Study of Scientific Research Into Understanding Motivations of Non-State Actors to Acquire and/or Use Weapons of Mass Destruction, June 22, 2007
- Bounding Analysis of Effects of Fractionation of Radionuclides in Fallout on Estimation of Doses to Atomic Veterans, May 2007
- Considerations on Estimating Upper Bounds of Neutron Doses to Military Participants at Atmospheric Nuclear Tests, April 2007
- Mitigation of Threats to the Continuation of Marine Recruit Training Posed by a Category 4/5 Influenza Pandemic, January 29, 2007
- Foreign Consequence Management: Legal Deskbook, January 2007
- Port Security Metrics: Proposed Measurement of Deterrence Capability, January 2007
- Foreign Perspectives on U.S. Nuclear Policy and Posture, December 12, 2006
- Strategic Culture Studies, October 31, 2006
- Overview of BTRP Cooperative Biological Research (CBR) Project, January 19, 2007
- A Window of Opportunity for Aceh, Indonesia Post-Tsunami: Historic Continuity, Current Points of Interest, and a Pattern, October 2005
- English-Russian Dictionary for Escort Interpreters, 2005
- The Future of Transatlantic Cooperation, October 2004
- Small Arms and Light Weapons Disarmament Programs: Challenges, Utility, and Lessons Learned, July 12, 2004
- Manned Gaming and Simulation Relating to Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Review of the Literature, April 17, 2004
- The Future of Theater Nuclear Forces in the New Triad, October 2003
- Strategic Stability in a Turbulent World, August 6, 2003
- Quantification of Open Source Research Publications in Biological Sciences for Biological Weapons Development Utility, June 16, 2003
- Community Reaction to Bioterrorism: Prospective Study of Simulated Outbreak, June 2003
- Minimum Nuclear Deterrence Research, Final Report, May 15, 2003
- Strategic Offense, Defense, and Arms Control (SODAC) Model, April 2003
- Prion Biology Study, July 2002
- Legal Weapons of Mass Destruction Consequence Management, May 2002
- Preliminary Report on Literature Search for Legal Weapons of Mass Destruction Seminars, March 26, 2002
- Modeling and Comparison of Options for the Disposal of Excess Weapons Plutonium in Russia, April 2002
- Nuclear Deterrence Issues and Options Study, December 21, 2001
- The Future of the U.S.-China Strategic Relationship After September 11th: Workshop Proceedings, December 21, 2001
- A Dictionary for Transparency, November 2001
- Protecting the United States Against Terrorist Nuclear Attacks, October 25, 2001
- Minimum Nuclear Deterrence Postures in South Asia: An Overview, October 1, 2001
- Non-Nuclear Strategic Deterrence of State and Non-State Adversaries, October 2001
- Strategic Personality and the Effectiveness of Nuclear Deterrence: Deterring Iraq and Iran
- Northeast Asian Strategic Security Environment Study, August 2001
- Asymmetric Conflict 2010, November 2000
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Maintained by Steven Aftergood
Updated November 18, 2013