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97 relations: Alistair MacLean, Allies of World War II, Anthrax, Armistice, Autoclave, Bacillus atrophaeus, BBC, BBC News, Berwyn Mountain UFO incident, Berwyn range, Bill Tidy, Botulinum toxin, British Sugar, Bruce George, Chlorine, Cold War, Comic strip, Common Cold Unit, CS gas, Daily Mail, David Kelly (weapons expert), Defence CBRN Centre, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Defence Select Committee, Desmond Bagley, Doc Martin, Dorset Biological Warfare Experiments, Dugway Proving Ground, Ebola virus disease, Escherichia coli, European Regional Development Fund, Ferret, Fort Detrick, Frankie Drake Mysteries, Geneva Protocol, Grimbledon Down, Gruinard Island, Guinea pig, GW Pharmaceuticals, Harlow, Human subject research, Idmiston, ITV (TV network), Keen as Mustard (film), Kurds, Lancelot Ware, Local enterprise partnership, Lysergic acid diethylamide, Military science, ..., Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), MoD Boscombe Down, Mouse, Nerve agent, New Scientist, Nitrogen mustard, Operation Antler (Porton Down investigation), Operation Vegetarian, Palgrave Macmillan, Paul Fildes, Peter Hammill, Peter Robinson (novelist), Phosgene, Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, Porton, Primate, Public Health England, Qinetiq, Rat, Rawalpindi experiments, Rhesus macaque, Ronald Maddison, RRH Portreath, Salisbury, Sarin, Science park, Skyclad (band), Soman, Spooks (series 3), Spooks (TV series), St Helens, Merseyside, Sulfur mustard, Tabun (nerve agent), The Bletchley Circle, The Enemy (Bagley novel), The Hounds of Baskerville, The Satan Bug (novel), United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction, VX (nerve agent), Weymouth, Dorset, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Council, Winterbourne Gunner, World War I, World War II, Wound ballistics, Yersinia pestis. Expand index (47 more) »
Alistair MacLean
Alistair Stuart MacLean (Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories.
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Allies of World War II
The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).
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Anthrax
Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
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Armistice
An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting.
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Autoclave
An autoclave is a pressure chamber used to carry out industrial processes requiring elevated temperature and pressure different from ambient air pressure.
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Bacillus atrophaeus
Bacillus atrophaeus is a species of black-pigmented bacteria.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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Berwyn Mountain UFO incident
On 23 January 1974 on the Berwyn Mountains in Llandrillo, Merionethshire, Wales, lights and noises were observed that were alleged to be related to a UFO sighting on Cadair Berwyn and Cadair Bronwen.
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Berwyn range
The Berwyn range (Welsh: Y Berwyn or Mynydd y Berwyn) is an isolated and sparsely populated area of moorland in the northeast of Wales, roughly bounded by Llangollen in the northeast, Corwen in the northwest, Bala in the southwest, and Oswestry in the southeast.
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Bill Tidy
William Edward "Bill" Tidy, MBE (born 9 October 1933), is a British cartoonist, writer and television personality, known chiefly for his comic strips.
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Botulinum toxin
Botulinum toxin (BTX) or Botox is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species.
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British Sugar
British Sugar plc is a subsidiary of Associated British Foods and the sole British producer of sugar from sugar beet.
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Bruce George
Bruce Thomas George (born 1 June 1942) is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall South from February 1974 until April 2010.
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Chlorine
Chlorine is a chemical element with symbol Cl and atomic number 17.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
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Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.
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Common Cold Unit
In Britain, the Common Cold Unit (CCU), also known as the Common Cold Research Unit (CCRU), was set up by the civilian Medical Research Council (MRC) in 1946 on the site of a former military hospital, the Harvard Hospital, at Harnham Down near Salisbury in Wiltshire.
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CS gas
The compound 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile (also called o-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile; chemical formula: C10H5ClN2), a cyanocarbon, is the defining component of a tear gas commonly referred to as CS gas, which is used as a riot control agent.
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Daily Mail
The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.
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David Kelly (weapons expert)
David Christopher Kelly (14 May 1944 – 17 July 2003) was a Welsh scientist and authority on biological warfare, employed by the British Ministry of Defence, and formerly a weapons inspector with the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq.
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Defence CBRN Centre
The Defence Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Centre (the Defence CBRN Centre or DCBRNC for short) is a United Kingdom military facility at Winterbourne Gunner in Wiltshire, south of Porton Down and about northeast of Salisbury.
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Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (normally known as DERA) was a part of the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) between 1995 and 2 July 2001.
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Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom.
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Defence Select Committee
The Defence Select Committee is one of the Select Committees of the British House of Commons, having been established in 1979.
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Desmond Bagley
Desmond Bagley (29 October 1923 – 12 April 1983) was a British journalist and novelist principally known for a series of best-selling thrillers.
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Doc Martin
Doc Martin is a British television medical comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role.
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Dorset Biological Warfare Experiments
The Dorset Biological Warfare Experiments were a series of experiments conducted between 1953 and 1975 to determine the extent to which a single ship or aircraft could dispense biological warfare agents over the United Kingdom.
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Dugway Proving Ground
Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a U.S. Army facility established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons, located about 85 miles (140 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah and 13 miles south of the 2,624 sq mi Utah Test and Training Range forming the largest overland special use airspace in the United States.
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Ebola virus disease
Ebola virus disease (EVD), also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) or simply Ebola, is a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates caused by ebolaviruses.
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Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli (also known as E. coli) is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, coliform bacterium of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms (endotherms).
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European Regional Development Fund
The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is a fund allocated by the European Union.
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Ferret
The ferret (Mustela putorius furo) is the domesticated form of the European polecat, a mammal belonging to the same genus as the weasel, Mustela of the family Mustelidae.
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Fort Detrick
Fort Detrick is a United States Army Medical Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland.
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Frankie Drake Mysteries
Frankie Drake Mysteries is a Canadian television drama series, which premiered on CBC Television in the 2017–18 television season.
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Geneva Protocol
The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, usually called the Geneva Protocol, is a treaty prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons in international armed conflicts.
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Grimbledon Down
Grimbledon Down was a comic strip by British cartoonist Bill Tidy, which ran in New Scientist magazine from 26 March 1970 until 26 March 1994.
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Gruinard Island
Gruinard Island ('Eilean Ghruinneard') is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately long by wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool.
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Guinea pig
The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as cavy or domestic cavy, is a species of rodent belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia.
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GW Pharmaceuticals
GW Pharmaceuticals is a British biopharmaceutical company known for its multiple sclerosis treatment product nabiximols (brand name, Sativex) which was the first natural cannabis plant derivative to gain market approval in any country. Another cannabis-based product, Epidiolex, for treatment of epilepsy, was approved for treatment of epilepsy in 2018.
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Harlow
Harlow is a former Mark One New Town and local government district in the west of Essex, England.
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Human subject research
Human subject research is systematic, scientific investigation that can be either interventional (a "trial") or observational (no "test article") and involves human beings as research subjects.
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Idmiston
Idmiston is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.
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ITV (TV network)
ITV is a British commercial TV network.
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Keen as Mustard (film)
Keen as Mustard is a documentary film researched and directed by Bridget Goodwin detailing secret experiments conducted during World War II on Australian servicemen volunteers to investigate the effects of, and precautions against, mustard gas when used as a weapon in the tropics.
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Kurds
The Kurds (rtl, Kurd) or the Kurdish people (rtl, Gelî kurd), are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a contiguous area spanning adjacent parts of southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan), and northern Syria (Western Kurdistan).
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Lancelot Ware
Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE (5 June 191515 August 2000) was an English barrister and biochemist.
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Local enterprise partnership
In England, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) are voluntary partnerships between local authorities and businesses set up in 2011 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to help determine local economic priorities and lead economic growth and job creation within the local area.
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Lysergic acid diethylamide
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, is a psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects, which may include altered awareness of one's surroundings, perceptions, and feelings as well as sensations and images that seem real though they are not.
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Military science
Military science is the study of military processes, institutions, and behavior, along with the study of warfare, and the theory and application of organized coercive force.
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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.
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MoD Boscombe Down
MoD Boscombe Down is the home of a military aircraft testing site, located near the town of Amesbury in Wiltshire, England.
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Mouse
A mouse (Mus), plural mice, is a small rodent characteristically having a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail and a high breeding rate.
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Nerve agent
Nerve agents, sometimes also called nerve gases, are a class of organic chemicals that disrupt the mechanisms by which nerves transfer messages to organs.
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New Scientist
New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.
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Nitrogen mustard
Nitrogen mustards are cytotoxic chemotherapy agents derived from mustard gas.
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Operation Antler (Porton Down investigation)
In July 1999 the UK Wiltshire Constabulary opened an investigation into allegations of malfeasance at Porton Down Chemical and Biological Research Establishment.
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Operation Vegetarian
Operation Vegetarian was a British military plan in 1942 to disseminate linseed cakes infected with anthrax spores onto the fields of Germany.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is an international academic and trade publishing company.
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Paul Fildes
Sir Paul Gordon Fildes (10 February 1882 – 5 February 1971) was a British pathologist and microbiologist who worked on the development of chemical-biological weaponry at Porton Down during the Second World War.
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Peter Hammill
Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English singer-songwriter.
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Peter Robinson (novelist)
Peter Robinson (born March 17, 1950) is an English-Canadian crime writer.
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Phosgene
Phosgene is the chemical compound with the formula COCl2.
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Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
Sergei Skripal is a former Russian military officer and British spy who acted as a double agent for the UK's intelligence services during the 1990s and early 2000s, until his arrest in December 2004.
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Porton
Porton is a village in the Bourne valley, Wiltshire, England, about northeast of Salisbury.
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Primate
A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank").
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Public Health England
Public Health England (PHE) is an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom that began operating on 1 April 2013.
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Qinetiq
Qinetiq (as in kinetic; styled as QinetiQ) is a British multinational defence technology company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire.
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Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents in the superfamily Muroidea.
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Rawalpindi experiments
The Rawalpindi experiments were experiments involving use of mustard gas carried out by scientists from Porton Down of the British military on hundreds of Indian soldiers.
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Rhesus macaque
The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is one of the best-known species of Old World monkeys.
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Ronald Maddison
Leading Aircraftman Ronald George Maddison (23 January 1933 – 6 May 1953) was a twenty-year-old Royal Air Force engineer who died as the result of exposure to nerve agents while acting as a voluntary test subject at Porton Down, in Wiltshire, England.
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RRH Portreath
Remote Radar Head Portreath or RRH Portreath is an air defence radar station operated by the Royal Air Force.
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Salisbury
Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 40,302, at the confluence of the rivers Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne.
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Sarin
Sarin, or NATO designation GB (G-series, 'B'), is a highly toxic synthetic organophosphorus compound.
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Science park
A science park (also called a "university research park", or a "science and technology park") is defined as being a property-based development that accommodates and fosters the growth of tenant firms and that are affiliated with a university (or a government and private research bodies) based on proximity, ownership, and/or governance.
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Skyclad (band)
Skyclad are a British heavy metal band with heavy folk influences in their music.
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Soman
Soman (or GD, EA 1210, Zoman, PFMP, systematic name: O-Pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate), is an extremely toxic chemical substance.
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Spooks (series 3)
The third series of the British spy drama television series Spooks (known as MI-5 in the United States) began broadcasting on 11 October 2004 on BBC One, before ending on 13 December 2004.
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Spooks (TV series)
Spooks (known as MI-5 in some countries) is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 to 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series.
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St Helens, Merseyside
St Helens is a large town in Merseyside, England.
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Sulfur mustard
Sulfur mustard, commonly known as mustard gas, is the prototypical substance of the sulfur-based family of cytotoxic and vesicant chemical warfare agents known as the sulfur mustards which have the ability to form large blisters on exposed skin and in the lungs.
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Tabun (nerve agent)
Tabun or GA is an extremely toxic chemical substance.
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The Bletchley Circle
The Bletchley Circle is a television mystery drama miniseries, set in 1952–53, about four women who used to work as codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
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The Enemy (Bagley novel)
The Enemy is a first person narrative espionage thriller novel by English author Desmond Bagley, first published in 1977.
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The Hounds of Baskerville
"The Hounds of Baskerville" is the second episode of the second series of the BBC crime drama series Sherlock, which follows the modern-day adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and was first broadcast by BBC One on 8 January 2012.
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The Satan Bug (novel)
The Satan Bug is a first-person narrative thriller novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean.
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United Kingdom and weapons of mass destruction
The United Kingdom possesses, or has possessed, a variety of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
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VX (nerve agent)
VX is an extremely toxic synthetic chemical compound in the organophosphorus class, specifically, a thiophosphonate.
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Weymouth, Dorset
Weymouth is a seaside town in Dorset, England, situated on a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey on the English Channel coast.
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Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.
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Wiltshire Council
Wiltshire Council is a unitary authority in South West of England, created in 2009.
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Winterbourne Gunner
Winterbourne Gunner is a village in Wiltshire, England, about northeast of Salisbury.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Wound ballistics
The field of wound ballistics largely comprises the study of the physiology and medical effects of projectile weapons (chiefly, but not exclusively, bullets) on humans or animals.
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Yersinia pestis
Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis) is a Gram-negative, non-motile rod-shaped coccobacillus, with no spores.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porton_Down
