DOD Creates Team to Bolster Nuclear Defenses

By Christopher J. Castelli / September 10, 2008 at 5:00 AM
A new team of defense officials is scrambling to create investment and management plans to prevent nuclear weapons or devices from being used against the United States or its allies, Inside the Pentagon has learned. Pentagon acquisition chief John Young established the Nuclear Defense Joint Analysis Team (ND JAT) in a Sept. 5 memo. Thomas Troyano, the homeland defense coordinator in Young's office, and Steve Henry, the deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear matters, are the new...

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