Eglin Air Force Base, Florida

Becker NM, Varta EB (1995) Hydrological transport of DU associated with open air dynamic range testing at Los Alamos natural laboratory. New Mexico and Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, LA-UR-95-1213, LANL... 

This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research and, in part, by Eglin Air Force Base. We thank Professor Alan Marchand from the University of North Texas who provided the high-energy-density fuels used in this study. We are indebted to Dr. Kathryn Williams, Dr. David Powell, and Mr. Russell Pierce in the Chemistry Department at the University of Florida, for their help with the spectrographic analyses. 

At Eglin Air Force Base (EAFB), located in northwestern Florida, contamination of a 208-ha section with 2.8 kg of 2,3,7,8-TCDD (equivalent to 13.0mg/ha) occurred between 1962 and 1970 as a result of repeated, massive herbicide applications. The 2,3,7,8-TCDD isomer was present as an impurity in 76,740 kg of... 

Ironically, given the baselessness of Communist accusations, the US did make some significant advances in its BW capacities during the Korean War. In Operation Dew (1951—52), 250 pounds of a fluorescent tracer were released from a minesweeper off the southeast coast of the United States to study the behavior of aerosols. Another exercise. Brown Derby, was carried out in November 1953 by the Chemical Corps and US Air Force to assess the ability of the US to produce and transport BW weapons overseas. A simulant was manufactured at Pine Bluff Arsenal, inserted into cluster bombs, then shipped to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The exercise demonstrated the US ability to mount a BW operation from scratch in a matter of days. 

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