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The Deseret Test Center was a U.S. Army operated command in charge of testing chemical and biological weapons during the 1960s. Deseret was headquartered at Fort Douglas, Utah. ==History== In May 1962 the U.S. Army established the Deseret Test Center at Fort Douglas, Utah, a disused army base.〔Regis, Edward. ''The Biology of Doom: The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Project'', ((Google Books )), Macmillan, 2000, p. 198, (ISBN 080505765X).〕 The command at Deseret was established as a result of Project 112 and Project SHAD. The project required a joint task force to undertake chemical and biological testing. In response, the Joint Chiefs of Staff established Deseret Test Center under the auspices of the U.S. Army.〔Harris, Sheldon H. ''Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45, and the American Cover-up'', ((Google Books )), Routledge, 1994, p. 232-33, (ISBN 0415091055).〕 On May 28, 1962 a U.S. Army Chemical Corps directive outlined Deseret's mission:〔 (to) prepare and conduct extra continental tests to assess chemical and biological weapons and defense systems, both by providing support data for research and development and by establishing a basis for the operational and logistic concepts needed for the employment of these systems. The center occupied Building 103 and 105 at Fort Douglas, where administrative and planning decisions were made. Despite being based at Douglas, no tests were actually performed on the base.〔 The headquarters at Fort Douglas was staffed by 200 individuals.〔 Deseret was designed to assist not only the Army but the Navy and the Air Force as well; thus, it was funded jointly by all branches of the U.S. military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).〔 Deseret also received administrative support from Dugway Proving Ground, about 80 miles away.〔 The U.S. Army closed Deseret Test Center in 1973.〔"(Fact Sheet - Yellow Leaf )", ''Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)'', Deployment Health Support Directorate, accessed November 15, 2008.〕 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「Deseret Test Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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