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...Despite the secrecy that shrouds most CBW research, Steele managed to visit nearly every installation where such work is under way. He flew over the Utah salt flats to see the vast reach of the Dugway Proving Grounds; he went to the biological laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, the scientific offices at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, and the huge storage depot at Tooele, Utah...
...major biological-warfare center at Fort Detrick, Md., the Army is experimenting with diseases that include undulant fever, coccidioidomycosis (a fungus infection), Rocky Mountain spotted fever and various strains of encephalitis, botulism, cholera, glanders and pneumonic plague. The major biological agents that the Army "keeps on the shelf" ready for use are anthrax, Q-fever, tularemia (rabbit fever) and psittacosis (parrot fever). Stored in sod-covered, concrete "igloos" at the Army's Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas, they are kept in constant cy cles of development, production, storage, elimination and replacement. The quantities now on hand are said...
Several of the Army's six major CBW installations have almost pastoral settings where game abounds and Boy Scouts come to camp and hike. The serene surroundings belie the research being conducted at these sites. At Fort Detrick, diseases are developed in laboratories with long stainless-steel and sealed-glass cabinets, many bearing stenciled nicknames like "African Queen" and "Tribulation Row." Fertilized eggs enter the labs in compartmented trays and move through the cabinets on conveyor belts. As they pass, the eggs are infected by lab technicians working through the cabinet walls with heavy rubber gloves and hypodermic needles...
...months, at the Army Chemical Warfare Services' Camp Detrick, Md., a team of bacteriologists, physicians, chemists, engineers, geneticists and biophysicists worked in secret. Their job: to find the best way to produce a rain of germy death for World War II. Unused, their discoveries are still on the shelf...
There was one bright spot for men of good will-including the scientists, who prefer to work on something less disastrous to mankind: much of what was learned at Camp Detrick about spreading airborne infections can be applied to curing peacetime ills. Their equipment is now being adapted for research on the common cold...