My research paper is on Dugway Proving Ground incident of 1969. The incident actually took place in March of 1968. What happened in 1969 was that President Nixon reaffirmed the “no first use, retaliate in kind” which became a national policy for the employment of chemical weapons. (Mauroni, Al, p. 33) The incident involved the killing of 6,000 sheep according to The Salt Lake Tribune. A deadly nerve agent known as VX had drifted off the reservation contaminating the sheep feeding area. The Army conducted investigations to show that they had nothing to do with the death of those sheep. At the end of the investigation it showed that they were not responsible for the incident. I am going to talk about the history of Dugway Proving Ground, and what cause the sheep to die. The people are blame the government for the death of the sheep, and the government is blaming ranchers. The government said the sheep died from the pesticides they sprayed to protect their crops. The history around Dugway Proving Ground is interesting, because it was built in the spring of 1942, and testing started in the summer of 1942. They wanted to build this place quick as possible, because it was back during World War II. The mission of Dugway Proving Ground is to test, implement United States and Allied biological and chemical weapon defense systems in a secure and isolated environment. (DPG, March 2014) Dugway Proving Ground was established by the US Army Chemical Warfare Service, because they wanted a more secluded testing site than the one they had in the US Army Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. Dugway Proving Ground consisted of 802 thousand acres. (DPG, Mar 2014) All that meant was they wanted to find a place that was not as visible to the people, and stayed... ... middle of paper ... ...a. Later they closed down the program, but it was eventually reactivated. Works Cited 1. Mauroni, A. J. (2007). Chemical and biological warfare: A reference handbook ABC-CLIO, Inc 2. Guillemin, J. (2005). Biological weapons: From the invention of state-sponsored programs to contemporary bioterrorism Columbia University Press. 3. "Facts About VX." CDC. N.p., 9 May 2013. Web. 17 Mar. 2014. Retrieved from http://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/vx/basics/facts.asp 4. JIM WOOLF THE SALT, LAKE TRIBUNE. (1997, Dec 14). Tribe digs into mystery of sheep that died near Dugway in 1968; sheep: Utah tribe digs into mystery. The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/288782360?accountid=4138 5. "Dugway Proving Ground." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 16 Mar. 2014. Web. 19 Mar. 2014. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_Proving_Ground
Ironically the burial ground’s discovery came from a land of no significance to prime, for an intended thirty-four-story federal office building. An environmental impact statement set off archeological test excavations, by producing an 18th century map delivering necessity to substantiate or disprove survival of a “Negro’s Burial Ground” (Kutz 1994).
Though biological weapons have been available for under a century, there is a long history of their use between 1914 and 1972. Chemical warfare was first introduced in 1914 at the beginning of World War I. Because of the new style of warfare with automatic weapons, trenches were dug out from the ground to defend against a slaughter. The introduction of this issue caused us to invent weapons such as the grenade, flame thrower, and finally, biological weapons. Biological weapons were distributed by hoses, grenades, and aerial attacks. By doing this, we eliminated many enemy trenches and saved a large amount of Ally lives. (Menace)
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"Communicating in the First Hours Bioterrorism Agents." Bioterrorism Agents. CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR), 14 May 2007. Web. 22 July
By the late 1820s, European settlers moved into the area to log and farm the land. The US government then adopted a policy to move the local Potawatomi tribe out of the area and further west. This bluff is said to be named for the Cogomoccasin leader of one of the nearby displaced Potawatomi villages from 1828. Furthermore, in the late 1940’s the site was in endangered by highway construction but John C. Birdsell donated a large amount from the site to the Museum of Anthropology. Due to this gracious donation, excavations were done on the historic site. In 1948, the site was excavated by a University of Michigan team,
Medical College of Wisconsin. “Facts About Anthrax and Smallpox as Bioterrorism Weapons.” Healthlink. 12 Nov. 2001. Medical College of Wisconsin. 24 July 2008 .
I pass that hill everyday. I drive along its large base, turning near its northern slope. The marker sits low on the hill, barely noticeable except when the rays of sun hit it that certain way and a long dark shadow is cast across the grass. The small brass plate sits firmly planted atop the cold granite boulder. The blood has long since dried. The cries and screams are silent. The small pine booth sits at the base of the hill, full of information packets and maps concerning the events that took place there long ago. February of 1675 remains flat and echoless upon the pages of our town’s record books. Textbooks may touch on it briefly, if at all;
Broyles, Janell. Chemical and Biological Weapons in a Post-9/11 World. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2005. Print.
Area 51 also includes the testing of aircrafts.” the correct names for the facility are Homey Airport” ( wikipedia the free encyclopedia)
Pita, R. (2009). Toxin weapons: From World War I to jihadi terrorism. Toxin Reviews, 28(4), 219-237. doi:10.3109/1556950903246136
In the summer of 1947, there were a number of UFO sightings in the United States. Sometime during the first week of July 1947, something crashed near Roswell. W.W. “Mac” Brazel went with his son and neighbours Floyd and Loretta Practor, to check on their sheep after a fierce thunderstorm that had taken place just the night before. As they were walking to where the sheep were they saw pieces of what seemed like metal debris. After a bit more investigating, Brazel saw a shallow trench that was several hundred feet long. Brazel went to Roswell and reported it. On July 1947 the press said that a wreckage of a crashed disk had been recovered and issued to col. William Blanchard of the 509th bomb group at Roswell. Just hours later the 509th bomb group said it had been mistakenly identified as a flying saucer when in fact it was really only a weather balloon.
They were in a field alongside a road down a steep hill to the south
News of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons seem to plague today's newspapers. Taking a glance at headlines, one would read about current issues regarding Iraqi disarmament of weapons of mass destruction, Russian government intentional use of a gas that killed rebels and hostages, and terrorist threats on the United States. Chemical and biological warfare (CBW) is not a new problem in the war against terror; it was a danger to communities centuries ago.
The idea of biological warfare may be a simple one, but do not make the mistake of oversimplifying it. One might say that coughing on someone you don’t like in order to give them your cold could be considered biological warfare, but it is nothing like the threat we are facing. Technology has moved far beyond the days of infecting Native Americans with small pox. Today, people are capable of making disease-resistant strains of virus and bacteria, manufacturing them in mass quantities, and storing them for long per...
Thesis: Biological Warfare is morally and inhumanely wrong, It is the wrongful killing of men, women, and children. It should be stopped no matter what the circumstances are.