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Dugway in the News

• 105 Newspaper Articles about Dugway Proving Ground
• Dugway Finds Old BW Bomblets
• Toxic Utah: A land littered with poisons
• Dugway security called sloppy
• Judge Rules in Whistleblower Case
• Army Admits To Secret Tests
• Former Dugway Scientist Tells All
• Medical Data Withheld by Pentagon
• Army pressed for test data
• GOP kills bill for oversight at Dugway
• Ex-Soldier links horses' malady to ill health
• Beverly White caps life of public service
• Twisted Judgment Overturns Hall Award
• Watchdogs shun "secret lab" plan
• Army may open can of worms
• Army may be off the land cleanup hook

Background

• US Army Dugway Proving Ground: Basin for Bio-testing
• Dugway Survivors Poll
• Germs on the Loose
• Test Docs Listed for Dugway
• Test Trends and Totals
• Army Dodges Blame
• Dugway - The Early Days
• Lethal Breeze
• Open Air Testing Testimony
• MS Linked to Dugway???
• Yellow Jacket Ranges

• DoD CBR Files
• CBR Warfare Files Menu     

Books/Photo Gallery

Books

• Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West.
• The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare.
• The Killing Winds: The Menace of Biological Warfare.
• Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests over Populated Areas.
• A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Chemical and Biological Warfare.
• Chemical and Biological Warfare: America's Hidden Arsenal.
• Cowboys in Gas Maska: Find a Damn Good Place to Dump Used Razor Blades.

Photo Gallery

Gallery #1: The Road to Dugway Proving Ground

Gallery #2: All Around Dugway Proving Ground

Gallery #3: From out of the 50s at DPG

Gallery #4: Contaminants of Concern

Awards

• Lee Davidson Awards Page
• Secrets at Sea: Cloud of secrecy lifting on Dugway Navy's tests of germ and chemical agents in the Pacific during Vietnam war.

         Jerrel Cook

• Operation Homecoming 2005 - Project 112 / Elk Hunt I & II : Jerrel Cook is bringing attention to the land based open-air testing of project 112/Shad.
• Letters of Appreciation given to Jerrel Cook
• Navy Times staff writer Deborah Funk interviews Jerrel Cook.
• Comments by Jerrel Cook to the Washington Post
• Listen to Jerrel Cook  Host the SVR Broadcast  on Stardust Radio.
• US Army Hall of Famers

Rockefeller Report

• Forward
• Introduction
• Background
• Mustard gas and lewisite
• Seventh-Day Adventists
• Dugway Proving Ground
• Radiation  exposure
• Hallucinogens
• DOD and DVA have repeatedly failed to provide information and medical follow-up to those who participate in military research or are ordered to take investigational drugs.
• DOD has demonstrated a pattern  of misrepresenting the danger of various military exposures that continues today.

Gulf War Illness

• Gulf War Illness in Utah
• The Tuite Reports

Radiological

• Report of Field Test 291: Gross Decontamination Studies of a Radiological Bomb.
• Death: Gilbert Dean Hill.
• Radiation Tests: Did Dugway Conduct over 600?
• Distrust: Six Dugway tests in '50s spread more radiation than 68 other trials combined.
• Meltdown: How Dangerous Were Secret Dugway Tests?
• RW Field Testing: RW contamination with Cobalt 60 pellets.
• Interim Report No. 77: Airburst Test of a Single 2000 lb. Dirty Bomb.
• Experiment Design: USAF Fission Product Dispersal Experiment - Series II.

Chemical Agents

• Chemicals released in the open atmosphere at Dugway.
• 1954 Report indicates the extent of US Navy and USAF testing at  Dugway.
• The DS2 Decontaminant Debacle: Its toxic and highly corrosive properties caused severe chemical burns; stricture of the esophagus; damage to the liver, the cornea of the eye, and the central nervous system.
• Chemicals released in the open atmosphere at Dugway.
• Simulants released in the open atmosphere at Dugway.
• Mission of Folly

Open Air Testing

• Micrometeorological Survey Sites at the top of Six Horse Pass and Cane Spring.
• Aerial Spray Grid
• Horizontal Grid
• East Wig Grid
• "V-Grid"
• Radiological Areas
• Tower Grid
• West Vertical Grid
• North Wig Grid
• Downwind Grid
• CDA Grid
• East Vertical Grid
• Target "S" Grid
• Rising Sun Grid
• German Village Grid
• Typical BW Aerial Spray Test of the 1950s and 60s. 
• Map of DPG showing test area locations.
• Aerial view of Dog Area
• Partial list of the Sanitized Test Grids of the 90s.
• Pesticide Management: Could this program have a spooky side?
• 1946 CK Gas Test: Pictures of the 1946 Dugway test.

   

Human Tests

• Memo regarding possible lethal dosage of BZ agent on human volunteers.
• Memorandum from the Army Chief of Staff to the Surgeon General outlining the use of Volunteers for research with atomic, biological and chemical warfare agents.
• Wilson Memorandum - Adopted after years of debate by the medical and scientific community with the Department of Defense.
• New and fruitful approaches for BW and CW human experimentation?
• Disclosed Agent Events with definite human exposure.
• Chemical Weapons testing sites using human subjects.

Battelle Edgewood Operations

• Battelle Edgewood Operations
• Agent Events Menu

 

Global Tests

• Global Tests Menu

The Test Tube Republic

• I. Introduction
• II. Brief History of Chemical Weapons Programs in Panama
• III. Storage of Chemical Agents and Munitions
• IV. Chemical Weapons Tests
• V. Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions
• VI. Potential Long-Term Dangers Posed by Abandoned Chemical Weapons
• VII. Information and Documents on Chemical Weapons: The U.S. Record
• VIII. Legal Obligations
• IX. Alleged development of biological agents in Panama
• X. Conclusions and Recommendations
• Annex

Records Gone

• Records are conveniently lost by the Army.
• Expert opinion of James E. Starrs
• Does the VA claim it has no knowledge of your chemical or biological exposure?
•  GAO-04-410 DoD Needs to Continue Collect and Provide Information on Tests and Potentially Exposed Personnel
• Canadian Government Recognizes Chemical Warfare Testing Veterans
• Link to the US Army 20th Support Command CBRNE

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