Dugway Proving Grounds

This performance was demonstrated in a proof-of-principle BWA contractor performance test conducted at ORNL early in 2002, and witnessed and reported31 by staff from the Dugway Proving Ground. This test was conducted... 

Luo, S. Andersen, D. Mohr, A. J. Abbreviated Test Report (Part II) for the Chem-ical/Biological Mass Spectrometer (CBMS) Block II Chemical Test. DPG Document No. WDTC-TR-03-081, West Desert Test Center, US Army Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT, 2003. 

Figure 5. The unmanned plane used to collect and identify aerosolized bacteria in field trials at Dugway Proving Ground, UT. The plane carried a ten-pound payload including a cyclone air sampler and 4-probe fiber optic biosensor.

CALSPAN-UB, Buffalo, NY US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD George Mason University, Manassas, VA Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City, MO Lovelace Institute, Albuquerque, NM US Army, Dugway Proving Ground, UT... 

US Army Dugway Proving Ground, UT Nevada Test Site, NV (Proposed)... 

Dugway Proving Ground. Bematek engineers specified the appropriate operating conditions to reduce the size of spent granulated activated carbon to less than 0.5 mm at a process rate of 30 lb/hr. 

Dugway Proving Ground and Deseret Chemical Depot, Utah... 

Minor exposures also occurred at Dugway Proving Grounds, where remnants of BZ munitions remained in the soil. Workers sometimes came to the dispensary with Big Eye - one dilated pupil - probably caused by a small BZ particle kicked up while walking on the test grid. Physostigmine eye drops were usually sufficient to correct the problem. 

We made up for the lost day by completing the volunteer performance and physiological baselines en route. Upon arrival in Salt Lake City, a waiting bus took us 80 miles north to desert-surrounded Dugway Proving Grounds. 

The tab for the week of film production by Logos Studios came to about 13,500. Hardly an extravagant expenditure, considering that the actual adventure in the desert at Dugway Proving Grounds had allegedly cost more than a million dollars In the upbeat opinion of the medical team, the Army got full value for its money. 

The lengthy IG report concludes with a detailed account of the field test we conducted in November 1964 at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah (Project Dork). The fact that the request to carry out diis test came via a Department of the Army representative, bearing an urgent requirement to test the feasibility of disseminating BZ to volunteers at distances of 500 and 1,000 yards, seemed to satisfy the IG team that the test was necessary and properly authorized. 

The Chemical Corps had already sustained a serious black eye after an accident with nerve gas near Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. In 1968, a small plane had sprayed VX as part of a dissemination test. Unexpectedly, winds blew it in the wrong direction. Although there were no human casualties, many sheep grazing on nearby farms died. 

Document No. DPG-FR-C615F, US Army Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, Utah 84022, February 1975. 

Dugway Proving Ground, located at Tooele, Utah, has been used for large area testing of Chemical Corps toxic agents and other chemical warfare materials Ref R. Clinton, ArmedForcesChemJ 5,... 

Smith, T. B. M. A. Wolf "Vertical diffusion from an elevated line source over a variety of terrains." Final Report, Contract No. DA-42-007-CML-545, U. S. Array Dugway Proving Ground, UT, 1963. 

H. E. Cramer Company, under Contract No. DAAD-09-71-C-0003, U. S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, UT, 1973. 

The most recent accident occurred at Dugway Proving grounds in July 2013 a detonation occurred while a chemist was grinding the material. 

SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE NAVAL SURFACE WEAPONS CENTER U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS DUGWAY PROVING GROUND... 

Figure 22. MSS rocket recovery at Dugway Proving Ground...

Utah—VIII Dugway Proving Ground VX, GA, GB, GD, CS, mustard, agent residues, foreign chemical munitions, unspecified others biologicals... 

Rice, G.B., T.W. Lambert, B. Haas, and V. Wallace. 1971. Effect of Chronic Ingestion of VX on Ovine Blood Cholinesterase. Technical Report DTC 71-512. Desert Test Center, Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, Utah. 

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