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The '''USSTRATCOM Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction''' ('''SCC-WMD''') is a [[United States Strategic Command]] center built in cooperation with the [[Defense Threat Reduction Agency]] (DTRA).

The SCC-WMD is housed in the Defense Threat Reduction Center (DTRC), the headquarters building of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) that opened January 26, 2006, just outside [[Washington, D.C.]]

==History and background==
At the opening of the new DTRC on January 26, 2006, Dr. James A. Tegnelia, DTRA director, also announced the Initial Operating Capability (IOC) of the SCC-WMD. Guests at the ceremony included:  Sen. [[Richard Lugar]], [[United States Republican Party|R]]-[[Indiana|Ind.]]; Hon. [[Kenneth J. Kreig]], [[Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics]]; Gen. [[James E. Cartwright]], [[United States Marine Corps|USMC]], Combatant Commander, U.S. Strategic Command; [[Dale E. Klein]], assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear and chemical and biological defense programs; [[Stephen Younger]], former director of DTRA; and Maj. Gen. [[Trudy H. Clark]], [[USAF]], DTRA deputy director.

Senator Lugar, chairman of the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]], was the keynote speaker for the ceremony.

==Resources==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090408232150/http://www.stratcom.mil/functional_components/ The components of USSTRATCOM.]
* [http://www.dtra.mil/press_resources/press_releases/display.cfm?pr=dtrcRelease DTRA News Release 26 Jan 06]

==See also==
*[[Defense Threat Reduction Agency]]
*[[United States Strategic Command]]
*[[National Counterproliferation Center]]

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[[Category:United States Department of Defense agencies]]