DTRIAC Provides Support to DTRA Conventional Weapons Effects Program

The 1991 Gulf War with Iraq demonstrated the effective use by coalition air power of advanced, precision-guided conventional munitions against Iraqi forces and military facilities. These weapons significantly contributed to the rapid termination of the conflict. The Defense Threat Reduction Information Analysis Center (DTRIAC), sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, supports DTRA’s mission to reduce the threat to the United States and its allies from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction, other special weapons, and from conventional weapons. The scope of DTRIAC’s activities includes weapons effects technology, nuclear weapons operations, arms control technology, cooperative threat reduction, information systems, and education and training.

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DTRIAC's Weapons Display Area

Most Information Analysis Centers (IAC) provide written or electronic information to their customer. DTRIAC provides an additional means of assisting customers in understanding the history and development of nuclear weapons through the Weapons Display Area (WDA); please note that there are no live weapons in the display. The WDA is located in the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Defense Nuclear Weapons School at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. Harry Powell, a DTRIAC employee, is personally responsible for the operation of the WDA.

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