Word: dugway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body temperature of 98.6 0 F and a chest that heaves with each "breath," he is astonishingly lifelike. Come October, he will wade into clouds of nerve gas, which his owner, the U.S. Army, would never dare subject a real soldier to. Manny's mission, at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, will be to test protective clothing -- for example, to determine whether walking, bending or sweating might cause the clothing to leak and let gas through. Built for $2.35 million by Battelle's Pacific Northwest Laboratories and based largely on Disney technology, this is one expensive...
...Nixon Administration halted production in 1969 after a nerve-gas accident at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah killed more than 6,000 sheep. However, fears of an overwhelming Soviet advantage in chemical weapons led Congress to vote three years ago to resume manufacturing. As a safety measure, all new U.S. chemical weapons are made of "binary" compounds that are less toxic by themselves and can be stored and shipped separately. Only when the substances are combined, as in a fired artillery shell or an exploded ^ bomb, do they become deadly...
...under way. Soldiers carrying grenade launchers patrolled Stapleton, and teams of medics with Chinook helicopters were stationed at four points along the air route, which was mapped across the sparsely settled northern sections of both states. In Utah the truck convoy that would carry the bombs 40 miles from Dugway Proving Ground, where the planes were scheduled to land, to Tooele was well rehearsed: drivers and guards had traveled the route three times, foiling nine different mock terrorist attacks along...
...Dugway, reporters outfitted with gas masks awaited the transports. An official coolly advised them: "If the plane should crash on landing, head for the bus." At 7:46 the first Starlifter landed, followed 54 minutes later by the second one. A crew member lit up a cigar in celebration. Said Public Affairs Officer Colonel Richard Horvath, who arrived on the first flight: "We had a good time up there." But with the flights stretching into next week, many Utah residents were not lighting up quite...
Starting last July, Boeing and General Dynamics each made ten test flights. Most were held over the bleak wastelands of the Utah Test and Training Range, near Dugway, Utah. The missiles were programmed to sprint at 500 m.p.h. round and round an aerial race course 100 miles long by 30 miles wide. In later tests some cruises were dropped from B-52s 60 miles out into the Pacific and programmed to fly back over California and Nevada to Utah. Air Force F-4 Phantom chase planes closely followed to observe and take over the missiles by radio control if anything...