Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
October 1998 United States Special Weapons News |
- 1998 National Security Strategy Report The White House Briefing Room 30 October 1998 -- President Clinton has transmitted to Congress the 1998 National Security Strategy Report, as required annually by the Goldwater-Nichols
Act.
- WORLD'S FASTEST COMPUTER UNVEILED AT WHITE HOUSE By Jennifer A. Cara USIA 28 October 1998 -- Vice President Al Gore and Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson unveiled the world's fastest computer at the White House October 28. It is capable of performing 3.9 trillion calculations per second, which is more than twice as fast as any other computer in the world.
- DoD News Briefing - Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. John J. Hamre , October 8, 1998 -
We wanted to change the title of Director of Defense Research and Engineering to I think it was Director for Defense Technology
and Counterproliferation. They chose not to do that in the authorization bill. We'll go back and ask to do that next year. So Dr. Mark's portfolio will be enlarged, become larger.
- 2nd Air Expeditionary Group bombers return home : 7 Oct 1998 - by Tech. Sgt. Howard Smith 2nd Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs -- Bombers from the 2nd Air Expeditionary Group -- three B-2 Spirits and three B-52H Stratofortresses -- completed their global power training mission Oct. 6.
- AMNESTY/U-S-A Voice of America 06 October 1998 -- THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HAS ISSUED A SCATHING CONDEMNATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE IN THE UNITED STATES.
- Agency Unifies DoD Threat Reduction Effort By Jim Garamone/a> By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service -- 02 October 1998 -- Calling it an important step in combating the spread of weapons of mass destruction, Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre opened the doors Oct. 1 to a new agency specifically structured to meet the growing threat.
- Threat Reduction Agency Stands Up By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service -- 02 October 1998 -- Defense Secretary William S. Cohen presided here Oct. 1 over the establishment of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The new agency will affect all service members in its role as DoD's focal point for force protection and counterproliferation programs. It was created by merging three other related DoD agencies.
- ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY October 1, 1998 -- Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen today established the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in a ceremony near Dulles Airport where the new defense agency will initially be headquartered. DTRA is dedicated to reducing the threat to the United States and its allies from nuclear, chemical, biological, conventional and special weapons.
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