Government Knew Tests Risked Lives

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SECRET documents have revealed that Winston Churchill's 1950s government endangered lives by proceeding with a dangerous biological weapons experiment, even though defence officials knew a fishing crew had unwittingly sailed into the testing area in Scottish waters.

In 1952, scientists from the secret weapons at laboratory Porton Down began detonating small bombs filled with bubonic and pneumonic plague close to cages of rhesus monkeys and guinea pigs on HMS Ben Lomond, stationed off Lewis.

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Government Knew Tests Risked Lives

The tests were first revealed by the Sunday Herald in 2003, and will feature in...

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