Lawrence Joyce is a Member of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, a private sector organization that advocates civil defense. As a member of DDP, in August 1996 Lawrence participated in a guided tour of the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds Biological Warfare Unit an hour and a half southwest of Salt Lake City. He spoke with researchers there and listened to them discuss the threat of germ warfare, including plans to build a $400 million mock city in the desert to train our troops in how to recognize if a germ warfare attack had taken place and, if so, how to then go in and decontaminate the area.