Proving Ground, Utah

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

To learn the behavior of agents under Pacific island conditions, Dugway sent other units to Camp Paraiso in the Panama Canal Zone and to Bushnell, Fla. The Bushnell installation, staffed by CWS and NDRC personnel, began operations in November 1943, and continued to function 

Early in 1940 the CWS decided to engage industrial and educational institutions to carry out research and development along certain lines. The 

The contracts specified the work that was to be done, but they did not try to tell the contractor how to carry out his task. Each contract included a clause granting the government rights to any invention made as a result of the work. Each contract was written for a fixed sum. In cases where the time stated in the contract proved insufficient to carry out the work, the CWS negotiated a supplemental agreement extending the time and granting additional funds. 

From July 1940 to September 1945 the CWS spent nearly five and one-half million dollars for work done under approximately four hundred contracts. At the same time it was receiving a similar kind of assistance indirectly through the efforts of a powerful civilian organization, the NDRC. 

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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. 

DNEU or DNEteU dinxcroethyleneurea DPG Dug way Proving Ground, Utah... 

Parker, D.T., Parker, A.C. and Ramachandran, C.K. (1996) Ricin. Joint CB Technical Data Source Book Toxin Agents. U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, Joint Contact Point Directorate. 

Charles H. Bay, The Other Gas Crisis - Chemical Weapons , Parameters, Journal of the Army War College, September 1979. Colonel Bay was Commander of Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, at the time he wrote the article. 

Dugway Proving Ground (Utah) 15 GB- or H-filled RCWM 7 DOT bottles... 

Sources (1) Chang M. A Survey and Evaluation of Chemical Warfare Agent Contaminants and Decontamination. Dugway Proving Ground, Utah Defense Technical Information Center 1984. AD-202525. (2) Baker JA. COR Decontamination/Contamination Control Master Plan Users Meeting. 11-13 September 1985. Unpublished. 

Chang M. A Survey and Evaluation of Chemical Warfare Agent Contaminants and Decontamination. Dugway Proving Ground, Utah Defense Technical Information Center 1984. AD-202525. 

Dugway Proving Ground, Utah Fort Carson, Colorado Fort Ord, California... 

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. 

Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, and Deseret Chemical Depot, Utah, August 3-4, 1999... 

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