Gruinard Island

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Image of Gruinard Island located in Gruinard Island, United Kingdom | Hazardous material teams on Gruinard Island. (Creative Commons)
Gruinard Island, United Kingdom

Gruinard Island

Fifty years of contamination in Scotland's waters

Before the Russians had even laid the first brick for the Vozrozhdeniye Island bioweapons facility, the British were busy developing Anthrax as a weapon of World War II. Begun in 1942, a highly... »

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