The next instalment of the project, This Poisoned Isle at The Salt House in West Bay, Dorset Oct 2018.
The Dorset Biological Warfare Experiments were conducted in the south Dorset area between 1963 -75. They took place under the control of the Microbiological Research Establishment from Porton Down. Numbering scores of individual trials, where both live and dead bacteria were sprayed from ships off the coast and from the air onto large sections of the surrounding countryside. Monitored by mobile detection sites at over 60 designated sites.
Four types of bacteria were used: E. Coli, Bacillus globigii, Bacterium aerogenes and Serratia marcescens. Cadmium Sulphite was also used as a biological weapons simulant.
Clusters of health abnormalities downwind from the test sites have been reported over the last 3 decades
In a 2005 report, The Defence Evaluation Research Agency said in recent years, “that they cannot rule out conducting larger scale trials in the future to try to ensure the protection of the UK from attacks by people of states using chemical and biological weapons”.
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