AU634 – Secret Histories: Poisoning the Public

During the Cold War, the British Government used the general public as unwitting biological and chemical warfare guinea pigs. In more than 750 secret operations, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Britons were subjected to ‘mock’ biological and chemical warfare attacks launched from aircraft, ships and road vehicles.

This one-off session will look in detail at many of these ‘experiments’, one of which included military aircraft dropping a chemical of ‘largely unknown toxic potential’ on civilians in and around Salisbury. Not for the faint-hearted!

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