Spurred by the approval of a key Pentagon strategy last year, Defense Department officials have begun casting efforts to improve the military's capabilities against weapons of mass destruction as contributions to the nation's deterrent forces, according to DOD officials. "In narrow terms, people have viewed deterrence as the ability to strike back," according to Doug Bruder, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's associate director for the combating weapons of mass destruction enterprise. "So, you think offensive, retaliation kinds of things," he...
