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What we were really scattering in those simulated chemical attacks

Old 10th Jul 2015, 00:36
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What we were really scattering in those simulated chemical attacks

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How the British Government subjected thousands of people to chemical and biological warfare trials during Cold War
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They talking about the food in the cookhouse?

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We were doing it with mustard gas on Army volunteers in S. India '44/'45. AFAIK, didn't lose any.

But when Porton Down were doing Sarin experiments post-war, they lost one airman.

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They talking about the food in the cookhouse?
That would be the stuff lace with bromide.
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ISTR volunteers being invited to take part in trials at the "Common Cold Research Centre" at Porton Down, which later turned out to have been chemical agent trials.
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Don't ask me who was on Question Time last night. However, I can quite happily discuss the use of Dipropylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether for use to aid chemical agent simulation all day long.

Not happily maybe.
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That would be the stuff lace with bromide
... which seems to be working 40 years later .....
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Oh pleeeze don't tell me that the chemtrail conspiracists had it right all along......

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I dare say it won't be long before somebody tries to sue the government over it.
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ISTR a case or cases over the "Common Cold" trials
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ISTR a case or cases over the "Common Cold" trials
Oh Yes. Jokingly , at the Towers as a Cadet, I suggested that it seemed a good ploy for a couple of weeks away.
The immediate reaction of certain of our SNCO Rock Instructors rang loud alarm bells........
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The New York subway and the London Tube were favourites for bacterial and virus propagation trials. By dropping a flask usually in the shape of a lightbulb at a station they could detect how far the subject pathogen travelled over a number of days.
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Wow, first post after lurking for so long. Back in the day at Gutersloh I had on top of my cabinet a piece if shattered Harrier canopy for training purpose. I had a visit from a Flt Lt who often acted as DS on exercise. He had been informed that nerve agent would craze an aircraft canopy; with that announcement he produced a bottle of Wintergreen oil. This is a similar colour and consistency as nerve agent he said, and continued to pour some onto the piece of canopy. I was left with instruction to monitor the effect of the agent on the canopy and report back. True, I promise. No amount of argument would convince him that Wintergreen is not Sarin, this an engineering officer too. Well it did have an effect, I got stick for making the office stink like a dodgy massage parlour.
In later years I was involved in clearing mustard gas storage sites which would throw up the occasional 10lb Ground Bomb which was indeed used for training, but that was before H&S spoiled the fun.
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