DTRA PSSM Global Efforts to Reduce Stockpile Threats
by John Schmitt [ Defense Threat Reduction Agency ]
While international efforts to reduce the amount of military-grade weapons among civilian populations are increasing, the storage, security and management of the resulting weapon stockpiles present a new set of challenges and dangers.
The United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency has a lead role within the U.S. government in making sure the solution to one problem does not create another.
How do you motivate a nation to seriously address a stockpile of increasingly old, unstable and useless conventional ammunition?