Search Results: Chemical Weapons Site
A munitions plant and chemical weapons stockpile site, Newport was the location of the production of TNT, Heavy Water, and, ending in 1968, VX nerve agent. Contamination at the 7,104 acre site is being addressed, and the VX agent stockpile is being neutralized. The...
The nation's primary chemical and biological weapons testing and training site, Dugway Proving Ground is a unique defense site that combines the microscopic world of its chemical and biological laboratories with large-scale testing and training. The land within Dugway'...
Fort McClellan was officially closed in 1999 and is now operated by the Alabama National Guard. For much of its history, Fort McClellan was one of the principal chemical and biological training centers for the Defense Department. The Chemical Defense Training Facility...
27 square miles of what has been called by many "the most toxic land in America." The only mission at the site now is clean-up. The sprawling plant was established in WWII to manufacture chemical weapons such as mustard gas and napalm. It was later taken over by...
A munitions storage and maintenance center, Anniston employs over 2,000 people and covers 25 square miles of land. Tanks and other equipment are repaired and tested here, but historically Anniston's main role has been as a major munitions storage site since WWII....
For many years, an office on the third floor of this building in Wellesley was the official headquarters for a remarkable engineering company known as EG&G. Founded by Doc Edgerton, the MIT professor famous for his strobe photography, and two of his former students...
Original home of the nation's chemical and biological weapons program, Edgewood is still the national center for research and development, test and evaluation, procurement and production of chemical materiel and related equipment. (Edgewood is now officially called the...
Pine Bluff is one of the nation's major chemical weapons facilities. It has several large industrial areas for hazardous work, more than 600 buildings, and at least 267 storage igloos. It stores 12.5% of the nation's obsolete chemical weapons, and is also a major...
The Capistrano Test Site is a remote, 2,700 acre R&D complex in the hills at the edge of Camp Pendleton, operated by TRW's Defense Space Systems Group. It was built up dramatically to support space-based "Star Wars" weapons systems in the 1980's, and is still at...
A 19,700 acre weapons depot in northeastern Oregon. Conventional weapons are stored here, in numerous earthen "igloos", and disposed of in burn pits and bomb diassembly sites. Also, more than 12% of the nation's chemical weapons are stored here.
This government-owned, contractor-operated ammunition and explosives plant is the largest capacity supplier of high performance explosives in the country. Among the many unique products produced here are the explosive powders used to trigger nuclear weapons. The 6,000-...
Seneca is a munitions storage site in upstate New York, that is being cleaned up and converted to civilian use. The 11,000-acre base was an explosives, chemical weapons, and hazardous material supply depot, with 519 ammunition storage igloos and over 20 large...
Fort Greely is a launch site for anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs), designed to shoot down enemy missiles that might be coming over the arctic to bomb the USA. The only other fixed battery of ABMs is at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Greely is a site for the...
The largest ammunition storage depot in the country. There are 3,500 buildings on the 147,000 acre main facility, located in western Nevada. Operated by the Day Zimmerman Hawthorne Corporation for the Army, which acquired the site from the Navy in 1977. Facilities...
A small Goshute Indian Reservation in Skull Valley, an isolated valley between Dugway Proving Ground and the West Desert Hazardous Industry Area. Seven households contain all of the approximately 30 Native Americans that live on the reservation, located a few miles...
A 14,494-acre site used for munitions storage, repair of general supplies and electronics, and the disposal of munitions. Chemical weapons have been disposed of here, leaving several areas heavily contaminated, and over 70,000 missiles containing the nerve agents VX,...
A large and busy Army engineering and training center, training around 32,000 soldiers every year, in classrooms and on numerous training ranges. The Fort experienced a construction boom in the late 1980's and early 1990's, when the Army Engineer Center was moved to...
An industrial laboratory and office complex a few miles outside of downtown Columbus that is the main lab and headquarters for Battelle, a nonprofit R...