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"The Eight Ball"

"The Eight Ball"
At Camp Detrick. Airtight, bombproof, and weighing 1321 tons, this one-million-liter chamber allowed Detrick’s scientists to understand how aerosolized biological agents would work at different altitudes in the open air. Monkeys and human test subjects sat inside. (U.S. Army)


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Major Loucks spent the first year of World War II refining the US military standard-issue gas mask. . . . . . In August 1942, Loucks was made commander of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, outside Denver, Colorado, where he was in charge of planning, building and operating the largest-capacity toxic manufacturing plant in the United States. Rocky Mountain produced mustard gas and incendiary bombs on an industrial scale -- incediary bombs that were dropped on Germany and Japan. Loucks was awarded the Legion of Merit for his war service.

Green (Dr. L. Wilson Green, technical director of Chemical and Radiological Laboratories. U.S Army) noticed, that soliders were put in the ‘gassing chamber,’ they became ‘partially diabled for from one to three weeks with fatigue, lassitude, complete loss of initiative and interest, and apathy.’ What stuck Green most was the men were wholly incapacitated for a period of time but not permanently injured. The men recovered entirely on their own; the antidote was time. Dr. L. Wilson Green saw in this a new kind of warefare. He sat down and began outlining his idea for America’s war fighting future in an opus that would become known as “Psychological chemical Warfare: A New Concept of war.” . . . . His seminal vision for psychochemical warfare -- a term he coined -- was to incapacitte a man with drugs on the battlefield but not to kill him. . . . .

. . . Green provided the army with a list of “61 materials known to cause mental disorder.” These sixty one compounds, he said, should be studied and refined to determine which single compound would be the best possible incapacitating agents for U.S military use. Green requested a budget of fifty thousand dollars, roughly half a million dollars in 2913, which was granted. . . . .

Inside the Eight Ball, airflow would simulate weather systems, with scientists on the outside controlling temperatures on the inside within a range of 55 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Humidity could be controlled inside the Eight Ball to fluctuate between 30 to 100 percent. This state-of-art environmental control would allow Detrick’s scientists to understand how aerosolized biological agents would work at different altitudes in the open air. The sphere would weigh more than 131 tons and would stand four stories tall. A catwalk around it center would allow scientists to observe, through portholes, the test subjects sitting inside as they were exposed to the world’s deadliest germs. The Chicago Bridge and Iron Works agreed to deliver date of 1949 Page 289/291
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OPERATION PAPERCLIP
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