Territorial Army

Others saw Porton as an ideal opportunity to conduct research. For example, Sydney Curwen, a member of the Territorial Army, used Porton as the base for his experimental work in the field of radiotherapy after the... 

In 1804 President Thomas Jefferson sent Army Officers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on an expedition to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase and beyond and to look for a waterway that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This passage describes the collision of cultures that occurred between Native Americans and the representatives of the United States government. 

In theory, the notion had much to recommend it and when the Wolff Committee submitted its report in 1955, a research road map seemed clearly marked. Army Chemical Corps scientists were soon venturing into unexplored territory. Since Edgewood Arsenal had facilities for animal testing, an abundance of chemical expertise and a volunteer program that was nascent but capable of expansion, it was a natural choice as a location for LSD investigative work,... 

There are some who have argued that without the use of Cinchona extracts, and later synthetic quinine analogues, world history over the past two centuries would have taken a very different course. It is argued that the use of quinine to treat malaria (and to a lesser extent yellow fever) facilitated colonialisation by western European countries of territories that would have been too hostile for foreigners with little natural resistance to parasitic-induced fevers. For example, the Panama Canal might not have been built without access to quinine. The outcome of the American Civil War has even been speculated upon because the successful blockade of the Confederate ports caused severe shortages of quinine so the Confederate Armies were debilitated by fevers. 

Unlike the German army, however, the muskrat first crossed the Belgian, and later the German border. Between 1950 and the present day the muskrat has constantly expanded its territory and it now occupies the larger part of the country, in spite of constant trapping by government-employed professional trappers. 

Clinicians can obtain licensed equine antitoxin from the CDC through their state and local health departments. The CDC Web site and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Web site contain directories for state health departments at http //www.cdc.gOv/other.htm states and http //astho.org. The licensed vaccine is effective against the most common toxin types (A, B, and E) causing human bot-nlism. The US Army has an investigational heptavalent (ABCDEFG) antitoxin effective against other toxin types. However, the time necessary to determine the correct toxin type makes this vaccine less useful in an outbreak (28,36). 

More generally, the term buried chemical warfare materiel refers to any CWM buried prior to January 1, 1977, or dumped at sea prior to January 1, 1985. Any CWM discovered and recovered after the initial declaration that was required by the CWC treaty must be destroyed (including formerly buried CWM). However, the CWC allows a member nation to exclude CWM buried on its territory before January 1,1977, or disposed of at sea before January 1,1985, as long as the materiel remains buried (U.S. Army, 1996). Thus, the CWC does not require buried CWM to be declared or destroyed as long as the materiel remains buried. At the time this report was prepared, CWM dumped at sea did not fall under the authority of the PMNSCM and were therefore not directly addressed by the committee. 

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