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Fort Detrick (/ ˈ d iː t r ɪ k /) is a United States Army Futures Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland. Fort Detrick was the center of the U.S. biological weapons program from 1943 to 1969. Since the discontinuation of that program, it has hosted most elements of the United States biological defense program. [1]
Oct. 30—On the corner of Chandler Street within Fort Detrick in Frederick, there used to be a cluster of World War II wood-frame barracks. That's where the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition ...
The NBACC was created as a federal response to the anthrax letter attacks in 2001 as the first national laboratory operating under the Department of Homeland Security. [1] The Department of Homeland Security said the mission of the NBACC is "to provide the scientific basis for the characterization of biological threats and bioforensic analysis ...
A Consent Statement (1955) for one of the Operation Whitecoat experiments at Fort Detrick. Operation Whitecoat was a biodefense medical research program carried out by the United States Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland, between 1954 and 1973. The program pursued medical research using volunteer enlisted personnel who were eventually nicknamed ...
The U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) was a suite of research laboratories and pilot plant centers operating at Camp (later Fort) Detrick, Maryland, United States, beginning in 1943 under the control of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps Research and Development Command.
May 29—When Memorial Day comes around at Fort Detrick, there are nearly 100 red, white and blue reminders of service members who are gone but not forgotten. Ninety-seven American flags on post ...
USARIEM traces its institutional lineage back to 1927 and the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory.That facility fostered two institutions that ultimately merged. The first was the Climatic Research Laboratory in Lawrence, MA (1943–54), which relocated to Natick in 1954 under the new name of the Environmental Protection Research Division (EPRD) of the U.S. Army’s Quartermaster Research and ...
Wormwood (stylized as 'WORMWO0D') is a 2017 American six-part docudrama miniseries directed by Errol Morris [1] and released on Netflix on December 15, 2017. [2] The series is based on the life of a scientist, Frank Olson, who worked for a secret government biological warfare program at Fort Detrick, Maryland.