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Chemical Corps

Index Chemical Corps

The Chemical Corps is the branch of the United States Army tasked with defending against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons. [1]

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Acheson J. Duncan

Acheson Johnston Duncan (September 24, 1904 – January 7, 1995) was a 20th-century statistician and an acknowledged authority in the field of quality control.

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Alice Mossie Brues

Alice Mossie Brues (October 9, 1913 – January 14, 2007) was a physical anthropologist.

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Alsos Mission

The Alsos Mission was an organized effort by a team of United States military, scientific, and intelligence personnel to discover enemy scientific developments during World War II.

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Amos Fries

Amos Alfred Fries was a general in the United States Army and 1898 graduate of the United States Military Academy.

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Anthony J. Calio

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Anthony McAuliffe

General Anthony Clement "Nuts" McAuliffe (July 2, 1898 – August 11, 1975) was a senior United States Army officer, who earned fame as the acting commander of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

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Army Service Forces

The Army Service Forces were one of the three autonomous components of the Army of the United States during World War II, the others being the Army Air Forces and Army Ground Forces.

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Arnold C. Cooper

Professor Arnold C. Cooper (March 9, 1933 – December 6, 2012) was a management scholar and a pioneer in the field of entrepreneurship and strategic management.

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Arthur Francis Buddington

Arthur Francis "Bud" BuddingtonHarold L. James.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.

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Basic Officer Leaders Course

The Basic Officer Leader Course (BOLC) is a two-phased training course designed to produce commissioned officers in the United States Army.

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Bataan (film)

Bataan is a 1943 American black-and-white World War II film drama from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Irving Starr (with Dore Schary as executive producer), directed by Tay Garnett, that stars Robert Taylor, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell, and Robert Walker.

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Bazooka

Bazooka is the common name for a man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher weapon, widely fielded by the United States Army.

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Big Five Weapons

The Big Five was a series of biological weapons developed by the United States Army Chemical Corps' Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick Biological Warfare Laboratory (BWL) for use by special forces.

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BLU-80/B Bigeye bomb

The BLU-80/B BIGEYE bomb was a developmental U.S. air-launched binary chemical weapon.

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Boca Raton Army Air Field

Boca Raton Army Air Field was a World War II United States Army Air Forces airfield, located northwest of the 1940s borders of Boca Raton, Florida.

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Bonner Fellers

Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a U.S. Army officer who served during World War II as military attaché and psychological warfare director.

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Botulinum toxin

Botulinum toxin (BTX) or Botox is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species.

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Branch Rickey

Wesley Branch Rickey (December 20, 1881 – December 9, 1965) was an American baseball player and sports executive.

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Building 257

Building 257, also known as Lab 257, was a United States biological warfare research laboratory located at Fort Terry on Plum Island, New York.

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Charles A. Kraus

Charles August Kraus (August 15, 1875 – June 27, 1967) was an American chemist.

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Charles Lathrop Parsons

Charles Lathrop Parsons (March 23, 1867, New Marlboro, Massachusetts-February 13, 1954 Pocasset, Massachusetts) was an American chemist.

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Charles Phelps Smyth

Charles Phelps "Charlie" Smyth (February 10, 1895 – March 18, 1990) was an American chemist.

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Chemical Corps

The Chemical Corps is the branch of the United States Army tasked with defending against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons.

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Chemical warfare

Chemical warfare (CW) involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons.

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Christian J. Lambertsen

Christian James Lambertsen (May 15, 1917 – February 11, 2011) was an American environmental medicine and diving medicine specialist who was principally responsible for developing the United States Navy frogmen's rebreathers in the early 1940s for underwater warfare.

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Christy Mathewson

Christopher Mathewson (August 12, 1880 – October 7, 1925), nicknamed "Big Six", "The Christian Gentleman", "Matty", and "The Gentleman's Hurler", was a Major League Baseball (MLB) right-handed pitcher who played 17 seasons with the New York Giants.

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Clark University

Clark University is an American private research university located in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Clyde Billington Jr.

Clyde Mark Billington Jr. (August 29, 1934 – April 2, 2018) was an American chemist, businessman, and politician.

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Combat support

In the United States Army, the term combat support refers to units that provide fire support and operational assistance to combat elements.

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Corps

Corps (plural corps; via French, from the Latin corpus "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organisation.

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CWS

CWS may refer to.

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Cyanogen chloride

Cyanogen chloride is a chemical compound with the formula NCCl.

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David A. Karnofsky

David Aryah Karnofsky (March 28, 1914 – August 31, 1969) was an American clinical oncologist.

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Deseret Test Center

The Deseret Test Center was a U.S. Army operated command in charge of testing chemical and biological weapons during the 1960s.

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Diamond T 4-ton 6x6 truck

The Diamond T 4-ton 6×6 truck was a heavy tactical truck built for the United States Army during World War II.

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Distinctive unit insignia

A distinctive unit insignia (DUI) is a metallic heraldic badge or device worn by soldiers in the United States Army.

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Doc Rankin

Ainsworth H. "Doc" Rankin (November 27, 1896 – January 1954) was an American army officer and freelance cartoonist.

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Ducky Detweiler

Robert Slerling Detweiler (February 15, 1919 – March 13, 2013) was an American professional baseball infielder and manager.

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Dugway sheep incident

The Dugway sheep incident, also known as the Skull Valley sheep kill, was a 1968 sheep kill that has been connected to United States Army chemical and biological warfare programs at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.

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E77 balloon bomb

The E77 balloon bomb was a U.S. anti-crop biological munition based on the design of Japanese fire balloons.

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E86 cluster bomb

The E86 cluster bomb was an American biological cluster bomb first developed in 1951.

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Earl J. Atkisson

Earl James Atkisson (August 12, 1886 – September 18, 1941) was Colonel of the United States Army's 1st Gas Regiment in World War I.

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Easter Posey

Easter Posey (April 4, 1920 – April 21, 1942) was the first American woman killed in the line of duty during World War II.

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Edgewood Arsenal human experiments

From 1948 to 1975, the U.S. Army Chemical Corps conducted classified human subject research at the Edgewood Arsenal facility in Maryland.

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Elmer Ernest Southard

Elmer Ernest Southard (July 28, 1876February 8, 1920) was an American neuropsychiatrist, neuropathologist, professor and author.

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Euthanasia trials

The Euthanasia trials (Euthanasie-Prozesse) were legal proceedings against the main perpetrators and accomplices involved in the euthanasia killings of the Nazi era in Germany.

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Ferdinand P. Beer

Ferdinand Pierre Beer (1915–2003) was a French mechanical engineer and university professor.

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Firewalker (The X-Files)

"Firewalker" is the ninth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files.

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Florence E. Wall

Florence Emeline Wall (1893 – October 2, 1988) was one of the first women to be recognized as a cosmetic chemist and the first woman to receive the medal of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists, in 1956.

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Forrest Wilson

Robert Forrest Wilson (January 20, 1883 in Warren, Ohio – May 9, 1942 in Weston, Connecticut) was an American author and journalist.

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Fort Detrick

Fort Detrick is a United States Army Medical Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland.

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Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood is a United States Army installation located in the Missouri Ozarks.

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Fort McClellan

Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, was a United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama established as Camp Shipp in 1898.

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Fort Terry

Fort Terry was a coastal fortification on Plum Island, a small island just off Orient Point, New York, USA.

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Frank Butterworth

Frank Seiler Butterworth Sr. (September 21, 1870 – August 21, 1950) was an American football player and coach.

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Frank Olson

Frank Rudolph Olson (July 17, 1910 – November 28, 1953) was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who worked at Camp Detrick (now Fort Detrick) in Maryland.

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Gardner Rea

Gardner Rea (1894 – December 29, 1966) was an American cartoonist, and one of the original contributing artists to The New Yorker.

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Gas mask

The gas mask is a mask used to protect the user from inhaling airborne pollutants and toxic gases.

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George Sisler

George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 – March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gentleman George" and "Gorgeous George", was an American professional baseball player for 15 seasons, primarily as first baseman with the St. Louis Browns.

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Granite Peak Installation

The Granite Peak Installation (GPI) — also known as Granite Peak Range — was a U.S. biological weapons testing facility located on of Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.

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Guidon (United States)

In the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Air Force, a guidon is a military standard that company or platoon-sized elements carry to signify their unit designation and corps affiliation or the title of the individual who carries it.

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Gustavus Esselen

Gustavus John Esselen (1888–1952) was an American chemist born in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Henry DeWolf Smyth

Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth (May 1, 1898 – September 11, 1986) was an American physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat.

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Henry H. Arnold

Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an American general officer holding the grades of General of the Army and General of the Air Force.

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Herbert A. Winkelmann

Herbert A. Winklemann (3 May 1893- 2 June 1965) was a chemist at B. F. Goodrich, known as a co-inventor (with Harold Gray) of the first antioxidant, AgeRite, developed in 1924 and marketed for rubber.

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History of biological warfare

Various types of biological warfare (BW) have been practiced repeatedly throughout history.

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History of the St. Louis Cardinals (1875–1919)

The St. Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball franchise based in St. Louis, Missouri, compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Holmesburg Prison

Holmesburg Prison is part of the City of Philadelphia Prison System.

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Horn Island Chemical Warfare Service Quarantine Station

Horn Island Chemical Warfare Service Quarantine Station, also known as the Horn Island Testing Station, was a U.S. biological weapons testing site during World War II.

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Howard E. Skipper

Howard Earle Skipper (born in Avon Park, Florida on November 21, 1915; died in Mountain Brook, Alabama on January 2, 2006) was a noted American oncologist.

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Howard W. Haggard

Howard Wilcox Haggard (July 19, 1891 - April 22, 1959) was an American physician, physiologist and writer.

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Incendiary device

Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using fire (and sometimes used as anti-personnel weaponry), that use materials such as napalm, thermite, magnesium powder, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus.

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Jacob's Ladder (1990 film)

Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological horror film directed by Adrian Lyne, produced by Alan Marshall, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and starring Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, and Danny Aiello.

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James Bryant Conant

James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.

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James Robb Church

James Robb Church (January 1, 1866 – May 18, 1923) was a United States Army Assistant Surgeon who received the Medal of Honor for his actions as part of the Rough Riders regiment during the Spanish–American War.

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John Howard Northrop

John Howard Northrop (July 5, 1891 – May 27, 1987) was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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John Paul Visscher

John Paul Visscher (1895–1950) was an American protozoologist.

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Khan Shaykhun chemical attack

The Khan Shaykhun chemical attack took place on 4 April 2017 on the town of Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib Governorate of Syria.

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Kurt Blome

Kurt Blome (31 January 1894, Bielefeld, Westphalia – 10 October 1969) was a high-ranking Nazi scientist before and during World War II.

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Leon E. Salomon

General Leon E. Salomon was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 27 April 1936.

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List of people barred or excluded from the United States

The following is a list of notable people who are, have been or were barred from entering the United States.

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List of people from Gadsden, Alabama

This is a list of people from Gadsden, Alabama, United States.

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List of people from Wisconsin

This is a list of prominent people from the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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List of U.S. biological weapons topics

The United States had an offensive biological weapons program from 1943 until 1969.

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List of U.S. chemical weapons topics

The United States chemical weapons program began in 1917 during World War I with the creation of the U.S. Army's Gas Service Section and ended 73 years later in 1990 with the country's practical adoption of the Chemical Weapons Convention (signed 1993; entered into force, 1997).

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List of United States Army careers

The United States Army uses various personnel management systems to classify soldiers in different specialties.

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List of United States Military Academy top-ranking graduates

The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York that educates and commissions officers for the United States Army.

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List of World War I military personnel educated at the United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York that educates and commissions officers for the United States Army.

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Lorin B. Sebrell

Lorin Beryl Sebrell (19 November 1894 – 5 August 1984) was an American scientist at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. noted for identifying mercaptobenzothiazole as a vulcanization accelerator.

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Ludwig Audrieth

Ludwig Frederick Audrieth (February 23, 1901 – January 28, 1967) was a chemist, educator, and United States Army officer.

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M134 bomblet

The M134 bomblet was a U.S. chemical sub-munition designed for use in the Honest John rocket during the 1950s.

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M138 bomblet

The M138 bomblet was a sub-munition of the U.S. chemical weapon, the M43 BZ cluster bomb.

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M33 cluster bomb

The M33 cluster bomb, also known as the (M33) Brucella cluster bomb, was a U.S. biological cluster bomb developed in the early 1950s and deployed in 1952.

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M34 cluster bomb

The M34 cluster bomb was the first mass-produced United States Army weapon meant to deliver the chemical agent sarin (GB).

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M43 BZ cluster bomb

The M43 BZ cluster bomb, or simply M43 cluster bomb, was a U.S. chemical cluster bomb intended to deliver the incapacitating agent known as BZ.

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M44 generator cluster

The M44 generator cluster was an American chemical cluster bomb designed to deliver the incapacitating agent BZ.

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M55 (rocket)

The M55 rocket was a chemical weapon developed by the United States in the 1950s.

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M67 Flame Thrower Tank

The Flame Thrower Tank M67 (also known as M67 "Zippo", nicknamed after a popular brand of cigarette lighter) is an American medium flame tank that was briefly used by the U.S. Army, and later by the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.

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Main Navy and Munitions Buildings

The Main Navy and Munitions Buildings were constructed in 1918 along Constitution Avenue (then known as B Street) on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall (Potomac Park), to provide temporary quarters for the United States Military.

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Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

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Marksmanship badges (United States)

In the United States (U.S.), a marksmanship badge is a U.S. military badge or a civilian badge which is presented to personnel upon successful completion of a weapons qualification course (known as marksmanship qualification badges) or high achievement in an official marksmanship competition (known as marksmanship competition badges).

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Martin Branner

Martin Michael Branner (December 28, 1888 – May 19, 1970), known to his friends as Mike Branner, was a cartoonist who created the popular comic strip Winnie Winkle.

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Michael John Hurdzan

Michael John Hurdzan (born September 11, 1943) is an American golf course architect, author, and a retired United States Army Colonel, who served with the United States Army Special Forces (Green Berets).

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Michael Yessis

Michael Yessis is a teacher, sports performance trainer, biomechanist, and author.

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Napalm

Napalm is a mixture of a gelling agent and either gasoline (petrol) or a similar fuel.

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Napalm Sticks to Kids

"Napalm Sticks to Kids" is a call and response running cadence occasionally used in the U.S. military.

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Nat Schachner

Nat Schachner (full name Nathaniel Schachner; January 16, 1895 – 1955), also appearing as "Nathan Schachner" was an American author.

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National Defense Act of 1916

The National Defense Act of 1916,, was a federal law that updated the Militia Act of 1903, which related to the organization of the military, particularly the National Guard.

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National Response Scenario Number One

National Response Scenario Number One is the United States federal government's planned response to a nuclear attack.

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NATO Joint Military Symbology

NATO Joint Military Symbology is the NATO standard for military map marking symbols.

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Nebelwerfer

The Nebelwerfer ("Smoke Mortar") was a World War II German series of weapons.

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Nikki Haley

Nimrata "Nikki" Haley (née Randhawa, born January 20, 1972) is an American politician who is currently the 29th United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

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Office of Civil Defense

The Office of Civilian Defense (OCD) was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in May 1941.

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Olin Corporation

The Olin Corporation is an American manufacturer of ammunition, chlorine, and sodium hydroxide.

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Operation CHASE

Operation CHASE (an acronym for "Cut Holes And Sink 'Em") was a United States Department of Defense program for the disposal of unwanted munitions at sea from May 1964 until the early 1970s.

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Operation Drop Kick

Between April and November 1956, the U.S. Army Chemical Corps conducted Operation Drop KickRose, William H. "", U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, Dugway Proving Ground, March 1981, via thesmokinggun.com, accessed December 25, 2008 to test the practicality of employing mosquitoes to carry an entomological warfare agent in different ways.

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Operation LAC

Operation LAC (Large Area Coverage) was a U.S. Army Chemical Corps operation which dispersed microscopic zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) particles over much of the United States.

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Operation Peppermint

Operation Peppermint was the codename given during World War II to preparations by the Manhattan Project and the European Theater of Operations United States Army (ETOUSA) to counter the danger that the Germans might disrupt the June 1944 Normandy landings with radioactive poisons.

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Operation Ranch Hand

Operation Ranch Hand was a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971.

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Operation Top Hat

Operation Top Hat was a "local field exercise" conducted by the United States Army Chemical Corps in 1953.

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Otto Ambros

Otto Ambros (19 May 1901 – 23 July 1990) was a German chemist and Nazi war criminal, notably involved with the research of chemical nerve agents, especially sarin and tabun.

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Panama Canal Division

The Panama Canal Division was a unit of the United States Army, established in order to ensure the United States could adequately defend the Canal Zone in Panama.

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People sniffer

People sniffer was the field name for a series of U.S. Army personnel detectors used during the Vietnam War.

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Peyton C. March

Peyton Conway March (December 27, 1864 – April 13, 1955) was a United States Army officer who served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1918 until 1921.

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Plum Island (New York)

Plum Island is an island in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York in the United States.

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Plum Island Animal Disease Center

Plum Island Animal Disease Center of New York (PIADCNY) is a United States federal research facility dedicated to the study of animal diseases.

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Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives

The Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA) is responsible for the safe and environmentally sound destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky and the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado.

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Project 112

Project 112 was a biological and chemical weapon experimentation project conducted by the United States Department of Defense from 1962 to 1973.

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PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly

PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly is series of United States Army technical bulletins published since June 1951 as a monthly magazine with comic book-style art to illustrate proper preventive maintenance methods.

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Ralph Cheli

Ralph Cheli (pronounced "Kelly"; October 29, 1919—March 6, 1944) was a major in the United States Army Air Forces and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.

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Redstone Arsenal

Redstone Arsenal (RSA) is a United States Army post and a census-designated place (CDP) adjacent to Huntsville in Madison County, Alabama, United States and is part of the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area.

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Redstone Test Stand

The Redstone Test Stand or Interim Test Stand was used to develop and test fire the Redstone missile, Jupiter-C sounding rocket, Juno I launch vehicle and Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle.

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Ricin

Ricin, a lectin (a carbohydrate-binding protein) produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, is a highly potent toxin.

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Robert S. Mulliken

Robert Sanderson Mulliken (June 7, 1896 – October 31, 1986) was an American physicist and chemist, primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory, i.e. the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules.

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Rolla M. Tryon Jr.

Rolla Milton Tryon Jr. (August 26, 1916 – August 20, 2001) was an American botanist who specialized in the systematics and evolution of ferns and other spore-dispersed plants (pteridology).

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S. Spencer Scott

Samuel Spencer Scott (June 21, 1892 – January 1, 1971) was an American publishing executive.

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Samuel Sanford Shapiro

Samuel Sanford Shapiro (born July 13, 1930) is an American statistician and engineer.

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Scott Haraburda

Scott Stanley Haraburda is an American soldier, engineer, inventor, and 2nd dan judoka.

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Sidney M. Cadwell

Sidney Marsh Cadwell (5 March 1893 – 24 June 1986) noted as discoverer of anti-oxidants for rubber.

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Structure of the United States Army

The structure of the United States Army is complex, and can be interpreted in several different ways: active/reserve, operational/administrative, and branches/functional areas.

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Tear gas

Tear gas, formally known as a lachrymator agent or lachrymator (from the Latin lacrima, meaning "tear"), sometimes colloquially known as mace,"Mace" is a brand name for a tear gas spray is a chemical weapon that causes severe eye and respiratory pain, skin irritation, bleeding, and even blindness.

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Ty Cobb

Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed The Georgia Peach, was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder.

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U.S. Army Regimental System

The United States Army Regimental System (USARS) was established in 1981 to replace the Combat Arms Regimental System, to provide each soldier with continuous identification with a single regiment, and to increase a soldier’s probability of serving recurring assignments with his or her regiment.

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Unethical human experimentation

Unethical human experimentation is human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics, such as the Nuremberg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki.

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Unethical human experimentation in the United States

Unethical human experimentation in the United States describes numerous experiments performed on human test subjects in the United States that have been considered unethical, and were often performed illegally, without the knowledge, consent, or informed consent of the test subjects.

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United States and weapons of mass destruction

The United States is known to have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and biological weapons.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Army Armor School

The United States Army Armor School is a training school located at Fort Benning, Georgia.

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United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories

The U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories (USBWL) were 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.

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United States Army branch insignia

Branch insignia of the United States Army refers to military emblems that may be worn on the uniform of the United States Army to denote membership in a particular area of expertise and series of functional areas.

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United States Army CBRN School

The United States Army CBRN School, located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, is the primary American training school specializing in military Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) defense.

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United States Army Gas School

The United States Army Gas School was established during World War I at Camp A.A. Humphreys in Virginia.

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United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases

The United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID; pronounced: you-SAM-rid) is the U.S Army’s main institution and facility for defensive research into countermeasures against biological warfare.

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United States biological defense program

The United States biological defense program—in recent years also called the National Biodefense Strategy—began as a small defensive effort that paralleled the country's offensive biological weapons development and production program, active between 1943 and 1969.

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United States biological weapons program

The United States biological weapons program officially began in spring 1943 on orders from U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.

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United States chemical weapons program

The United States chemical weapons program began in 1917 during World War I with the creation of the U.S. Army's Gas Service Section and ended 73 years later in 1990 with the country's practical adoption of the Chemical Weapons Convention (signed 1993; entered into force, 1997).

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Vincent Dethier

Vincent Gaston Dethier (20 February 1915 – 8 September 1993) was an American physiologist and entomologist.

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W. Conway Pierce

Willis Conway Pierce (December 2, 1895 – December 23, 1974) was an American chemist and professor in the University of California system.

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War Bureau of Consultants

The War Bureau of Consultants (WBC) was a committee of 12 prominent scientists and several government consultants put together in November 1941 to investigate the feasibility of a U.S. bio-weapons program.

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War Research Service

The War Research Service (WRS) was a civilian agency of the United States government established during World War II to pursue research relating to biological warfare.

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William F. Dean

William Frishe Dean Sr. (August 1, 1899August 24, 1981) was a United States Army major general during World War II and the Korean War.

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William L. Langer

William Leonard Langer (March 16, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was the chairman of the history department at Harvard University.

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William L. Sibert

Major General William Luther Sibert (October 12, 1860 – October 16, 1935) was a senior United States Army officer who commanded the 1st Division on the Western Front during World War I.

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William Lay Thompson

William Lay Thompson was an American ornithologist, naturalist and educator.

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Willis J. Potts

Willis John Potts (March 22, 1895 - May 5, 1968) was an American pediatric surgeon and one of the earliest physicians to focus on the surgical treatment of heart problems in children.

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Winford Lee Lewis

Winford Lee Lewis (May 29, 1878 – January 20, 1943) was a US soldier and chemist best known for his rediscovery of the chemical warfare agent lewisite in 1917.

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Zinc cadmium sulfide

Zinc cadmium sulfide is a mixture of zinc sulfide (ZnS) and cadmium sulfide (CdS).

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11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment ("Blackhorse Regiment") is a unit of the United States Army garrisoned at Fort Irwin, California.

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15 cm Nebelwerfer 41

The 15 cm Nebelwerfer 41 (15 cm NbW 41) was a Nazi German multiple rocket launcher used in the Second World War.

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1918 Cincinnati Reds season

The 1918 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball.

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1st Maneuver Enhancement Brigade

The 1st Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (1st MEB) was a United States Army brigade located at Fort Polk, Louisiana.

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21 cm Nebelwerfer 42

The 21 cm Nebelwerfer 42 (21 cm NbW 42) was a German multiple rocket launcher used in the Second World War.

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22nd Chemical Battalion (United States)

The 22d Chemical Battalion is a chemical battalion of the United States Army first organized on 26 November 1917.

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23rd Chemical Battalion

The 23rd Chemical Battalion is a Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives defense battalion of the United States Army, part of the 2nd Sustainment Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division at Camp Humphreys, Korea.

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267th Chemical Company

The 267th Chemical Company was a military unit of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps responsible for the surety of chemical warfare agents dubbed "RED HAT" deployed to the Islands of Okinawa, Japan and subsequently Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

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28/32 cm Nebelwerfer 41

The 28/32 cm Nebelwerfer 41 (28/32 cm NbW 41) was a German multiple rocket launcher used in the Second World War.

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2nd Chemical Battalion (United States)

The 2nd Chemical Battalion is a United States Army chemical unit stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, United States, and is part of the 48th Chemical Brigade.

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30 cm Nebelwerfer 42

The 30 cm Nebelwerfer 42 (30 cm NbW 42) was a German multiple rocket launcher used in the Second World War.

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30 cm Raketenwerfer 56

The 30 cm Raketenwerfer 56 was a German multiple rocket launcher used in the Second World War.

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340th Infantry Regiment (United States)

The 340th Infantry Regiment was a National Army unit first organized for service in World War I as part of the 85th Infantry Division in Europe.

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3rd Brigade, 104th Division (United States)

The 3rd Brigade, 104th Division is an infantry brigade of the United States Army.

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3rd Chemical Brigade (United States)

The 3rd Chemical Brigade is a training brigade of the United States Army based at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, retaining for historic reasons its name.

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455th Chemical Brigade (United States)

The 455th Chemical Brigade was an NBC defense formation of the United States Army Reserve, active from 2000 to 2007 at Fort Dix.

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59th Quartermaster Company (United States)

The 59th Quartermaster Company is a bulk petroleum company designed to provide semi-portable storage for of fuel and to provide distribution of fuel to military units within a specified geographic area while deployed overseas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Corps

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