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The Defence CBRN Centre is a UK government facility based at Winterbourne Gunner in Wiltshire, south of Porton Down. It is a tri-service location, with the RAF being the lead service. It is responsible for all training issues relating to CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear events) warfare for the UK armed forces. It is also the home of the Department of Health's Hazardous Area Response (HART) training facility. It was the home of the UK Police National CBRN Centre until it moved to NPIA facilities at Ryton. ==History== The site was established as an element of the Porton Down research facility in 1917. Known as Porton South Camp it served as a Trench Mortar experimental site. Reducing in scale immediately following the cessation of hostilities in 1918, research into chemical weapons and defence recommenced in 1921, with South Camp becoming the Chemical Warfare School in 1926. In 1931 the site became part of the Small Arms School as the Anti-Gas Wing. It would later become an independent entity, in 1939, as the Army Gas School, later Army School of Chemical Warfare. Until 1947 the establishment was operated purely by the Army, becoming a joint Army and Royal Air Force establishment at this point. The emergence of a nuclear weapons threat led to the inclusion of radiological defence into the portfolio. In 1964 the biological threat was included into the operation of the centre, becoming the Defence Nuclear, Biological and Chemical School. In 1999 the RAF took over the operation of the site, following the 1997 decision that they became the lead service for NBC training. A full refurbishment of the site completed in 2005 with the legacy WWI accommodation being fully replaced by a modernised training facility used by all three services. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Defence CBRN Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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