Opening up Dugway Proving Grounds, the military's secretive biological weapon testing unit
In 1941, the US Army decided it needed a remote testing site to develop and test experimental, chemical-based weapons, some place far away from civilians and, perhaps more importantly, the opportunity for enemies to see what the Army was building.
The Dugway Proving Ground was born: 1,252 sq mi. in the Great Salt Lake Desert of Utah, giving the Army a test playground roughly the size of Rhode Island to experiment.
And experiment they did: Dugway became a clearinghouse for tests of biological and nerve agents, projects involving insects as deployment agents and sleeping darts.
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