Dugway Base for chemical/biological weapons on lockdown
Skull Valley sheep kill 1968
A Utah military facility that tests chemical and biological weapons was locked down “to resolve a serious concern,” and authorities were working to reopen the base, officials said Thursday. All base personnel were safe and working, and no evacuation was needed, said spokeswoman, Bonnie Robinson. She would not say why the base was locked down…
About 1,500 employees and contractors are stationed at the base.
Dugway commander Col. William E. King IV said earlier authorities were “working as quickly and as thoroughly as possible to resolve a serious concern within the Test Area” but he didn’t elaborate.
“As you know measures like these (lockdown of our gates) are not taken lightly. No one is in immediate danger but these steps are required.”
The proving ground covers 798,214 acres and is located in the Great Salt Lake Desert, around 85 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.
Also a historic center for the development and testing of chemical and biological weapons.
Watch the movie “Rage” sometime – starring George C. Scott. Based on events in the good old Cold Warrior days when a release of one of our All-American weapons of mass destruction killed thousands of sheep.
Dugway has been a test site for weaponized anthrax as recently as 1998.
