Chemical warfare: Inside Britain's toxic house of horrors
.. Or ... what they really think of 'our troops' ...
'Servicemen were deliberately subjected to lethal doses of poison in secret tests atPorton Down, an official report will admit this week. The Ministry of Defence is now braced for a flood of compensation claims from volunteers used in trials at its chemical weapons research centre. The long-delayed "historical survey" of Porton Down finds that at least five sets of trials "may not have met the ethical standards required," The Independent on Sunday has learnt. They include one trial in which drops of a poison were placed on the skin of volunteers at a dosage level believed at the time to be fatal.'
