The Secret Hazardous Devices School In Alabama
Nation Involved: United States of America
Time Period: 1971 to Present
Government experiments on hazardous weapons or chemicals seem to be a running theme here. Yet the U.S. did actually want to stop the experiments being done too often nationwide. Thus, they tried to reduce things by having some testing take place in a few distinct locations. This led the FBI and Army to create the Hazardous Devices School. It was a secretive testing and training facility in a very remote area in Alabama around the city of Hunstville. Today, it only operates as a training center.
The U.S. Army and FBI realized that many improvised explosives were being formed nationwide. Thus, this school could serve as a great training center to train bomb squad officers. There they could learn about various devices, thus knowing the amount of damage they could do. Plus, they could learn how to disable them too. It opened in 1971 and is openly running to this day. Interestingly, this is close to the Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center as well as NASA’s Space and Rocket Center.