Dugway Proving Ground
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Dugway Proving Ground is a United States Army facility established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons, located about 85 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, and 13 miles south of the
Dugway Proving Ground encompasses a vast area of the western Utah desert
Aberdeen Proving Ground
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Aberdeen Proving Ground is a United States Army facility that neighbors Aberdeen and Edgewood, Maryland.
Dugway Proving Ground
…to the war in Afghanistan. In 1941, the US Army Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) determined it needed a testing facility more remote than the US Army's Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. The CWS surveyed the Western U.S. for a new location to conduct its tests, and in early 1942, construction of Dugway Proving Ground began…
A sign on U.S. Route 40 in Aberdeen, Maryland commemorating the establishment of Aberdeen Proving Ground in 1917.
View of chemical plants, 1918
Chemical plant at Edgewood Arsenal, 1917
Chlorine plant at the Edgewood Arsenal, 1918