Dugway: is it the wrong way?

The old original entrance gate from back in the day.

 To put is succinctly, I'm not a fan of the peacenik idjiots who protested (successfully) to prevent ICBMs from being stationed in Utah. No only because they robbed us of some cool real estate one they would eventually be retired, but they also helped likely prevent other nuclear projects in Utah, such as nuclear power plants, which would have vastly improved the air quality if used instead of coal plants. 

Also, as I mentioned before, they had such a problem with ICBMs, but seem to be fine with there being over a half dozen uranium disposal sites across the state, several hazmat incinerators (see also here and here), and the bulk of the US chemical and biological testing and stockpile being located here at Dugway Proving Grounds, Storage Site, and Deseret Test Center.

An interesting logo/patch for the Deseret Test Center headquartered at Fort Douglas.

In my opinion, chemical and biological weapons and warfare are far more terrifying than the dreaded nuke could ever hope to be. Partially because the nuke is no destructive, so final in it's ending of life, it makes a great deterrent. No sane person would want to be the cause of ending the world, or be seen as being responsible for it. Chemical and biological weapons on the other hand, seem to encourage those in power to play god to find out just how far they can take it. To see if they can engineer something to fit their needs, to scale it to just how fast they want it to spread, how far to spread it, what the effect will be to the targets, whether it makes people docile, disabled, dead, sick, insane, or even gay. 

What the main gate looks like today. I miss the big lettering on top of the gate. It was much classier.

It's especially terrifying in that because it's not perceived as so destructive and more malleable than the nuke, so it's often seen as a more viable, usable weapon on an unsuspecting public. Even if it's not lethal, it can be used to terrify and sway the public perception and behavior for political or other nefarious ends (see the commie cough, which is now established as being modified/weaponized in a lab).  

Not only that, but despite some accidents and security breaches with nukes and nuclear power plants, they don't scare me as much as the security problems and accidents with chemical and biological weapons. Even good natured research into solutions to chemical and biological  threats can yield some pretty scary results and accidents. See the following short documentary on the Dugway Proving Ground's accident history:

Now, I'm not even overly anti-chemical or biological warfare research, particularly in defense research from it, but I'm still fuming at the morons who screwed the rest of us Utahans out of the far safer and more practical civilian applicable alternative of good 'ol nukes. 

If you got two roads to go down, I choose the bomb.