Dugway Proving Ground, Utah testing

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. 

Meanwhile, in 1942-3, the CWS constructed a BW facility at Camp Detrick (later renamed Fort Detrick), an army facility in Maryland, at a cost of 13 million. Operational in 1943, the facility at Camp Detrick employed approximately 4000 people. Other BW-related facilities included a 250-acre site near Dugway Proving Grounds (Utah) and a 2000 acre facility at Horn Island (Pascalouga, Mississippi), both of which were used for open-air testing. 

Issou, R.M., et al., Improvemeut of iustrumeutal methods, DPG-FR-88-711, U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, 1988. 

Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, major irtstallation for field testing, prooffiring, and surveillance of chemical agents and munitions under temperate zone conditions. 

March The accidental release of VX during an open-air chemical warfare (CW) test kills more than a thousand sheep in Skull Valley, east of Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. 1 July The Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Nonproliferation Treaty, NPT) is opened for signature. 

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. 

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,... 

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. 

The American Army commissioned a commercial company to produce BZ in bulk and chose the biological and chemical weapons plant on an old Second World War base in central Arkansas as the site on which the BZ would be loaded into bombs. In 1962. they spent two million dollars on the BZ plant at Pine Bluff Arsenal, and over the next two years one hundred thousand pounds of it was produced. But despite all the years of research and the expense of building special factories, B Z, the humane weapon has probably never been used.42 The Army continued to experiment with the gas during the 60s, in a series of tests at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, and, in conditions of extreme secrecy, at a site on Hawaii.43... 

Chief, Life Sciences Division, West Desert Test Center, Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, Utah 84022 formerly, Scientific Advisor, Toxinology Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland 21702-5011 Colonel, Veterinary Corps, U.S. Army Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland 21702-5011... 

Lowe RC, Roberts CE, Martin DD. International Material Evaluation (IME) of Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Protective Covers (NBC-PC), Ultra-Ply (Japan). Final Report, Phase II. Dugway, Utah US Army Dugway Proving Ground. Memorandum to US Army Material Command, Chemical Research and Development Center, 13 April 1989. US Army Test and Evaluation Command Project 8-ES-825-PCS-004. 

The MMD neutralent analysis data come from bench-scale tests car-ducted at Dugway Proving Ground (DPG), Utah, rather than from actual operation of the MMD. 

Dugway Proving Ground. 1998. RCRA permit for MMD-1 testing issued by the State of Utah. Available on line at http //www.deq.state.ut.us/ eqshw/cds/MMDPermit.htm... 

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