Collaborating with local health agencies not only helps prevent the next epidemic but also ensures that these virus models are kept safely. In an interview in 2022.
Dtra's staff acts as an early warning system of the Viking, a National Assembly employee told Wired, before any deployment of the US military, they said. Although it may not be a traditional military power, they added, but it is still suitable for the government's priorities. This is our border guarantee from pathogens.
An independent analysis Conducted for the Pentagon in 2022 shows that these threats have a good position to respond quickly to emerging threats (weapons of mass destruction); Its government is unique and filled with an existing distance.
Programs like DTRA should be expanded, not cut, Gigi Gronvall, a professor at Johns Hopkins Medical Security Center. These are mainly national security programs, she said, designed to give us eyes and ears around the world to extinguish those fires, or prevent them from happening from the beginning.
If you don't put out the fire whether it's a new infectious disease or a chemical weapons program in a scam, it will continue to grow, Gronvall added. We have areas in the world without fire department, she said. By helping them help themselves, we are helping them step up.
'Sell fire of expertise'
The efforts to reduce the threat of the Pentagon, and DTRA itself, stemming from the work of the former US Senator Sam Nunn, Democracy and Richard Lugar, a Republican Party, to ensure a series of weapons of destruction of mass destruction. After the Soviet Union collapsed. The United States, through their work, destroyed thousands of ballistic and nuclear warheads, handled tens of thousands of chemical weapons pounds and removed the Soviet Bieweapon laboratories. In 1998, DTRA was officially created and was assigned a more expensive task to monitor and destroy chemical and biological threats and help other countries do the same.
For its work, Dtra was Targeted by Russian non -information effortsWith Moscow accusing the United States of producing biological weapons in the DTRA laboratories sponsored. After Russia's comprehensive aggression to Ukraine in 2022, Conspiracy theorists In the United States picked up that topic, showing that the aggression was protected to destroy these Bieweapons laboratories.
Dtra's concerns have been raised by the medical and human service secretary Robert F. Kennedy JR., National Intelligence Director Tulsi GabbardAnd Russia itself. Republican Senator Rand Paul has Continuously issue plaster For DTRA is seeking evidence that it has been involved in dangerous virus research and thinks it may have had a hand in creating Covid-19.
When Russia was attacking that program, it did so because it wanted to erode our national security, Gron Gronvall said. Russia may not believe these lies, she added, but they have been very successful in making people have the power to believe these things.