DTRA is in fact the successor agency to the Manhattan Project. It has had many names over the years, and and acquired other organizations as it evolved. That said, CTR’s mission is just that -Counter Threat Reduction. Not a single one of these labs is a U.S. facility.
You’re weaseling, Chief.
Men of experience know how deadly threats are “reduced”. The agency is about killing the enemy.
The labs were US-funded and those funds come with directions and milestones. If the funding came from the NIH or CDC, then you might be able to sell the story that this was all benign. But the funding came from the department of government specifically tasked with killing the enemy.
Putin knows where he and Russia fit into that scene.