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| | News Media Resources: DTRA Fact Sheets |
 | | The treaty, signed March 24, 1992, in Helsinki, Finland, is designed to strengthen its signatories' ability to prevent conflict and manage crises by promoting openness and transparency in military activities through reciprocal, unarmed observation overflights. |
 | | The two Open Skies aircraft were reconfigured from a WC-135B weather research and atmospheric sampling platform. |
 | | DTRA safeguards America and its allies from weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives) by providing capabilities to reduce, eliminate, and counter the threat, and mitigate its effects. |
| www.dtra.mil /newsservices/fact_sheets/display.cfm?fs=os-oc-135b (539 words) |
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