For decades, Gruinard Island was one of Britain’s darkest military secrets - a remote island contaminated by wartime anthrax ...

During World War II, British scientists conducted secret biological weapon tests on a remote Scottish island using anthrax. What followed was a long-term disaster that rendered the land uninhabitable ...

GRUINARD BAY, Scotland - It was here on this fern-covered island that British scientists first harnessed the deadly power of anthrax, wiping out herds of sheep with microbe-packed bombs in one of the ...

Famed WWII site in Scotland inspires tabloid hype, daredevil tourism and dark humor. GRUINARD BAY, Scotland — It was here on this fern-covered island that British scientists first harnessed the deadly ...

During the Second World War, government scientists from Porton Down attempted to weaponise anthrax, creating a deadly strain that they then tested on Gruinard Island, an uninhabited remote site off ...

Knight and germ warrior, Sir Paul Fildes ran the biology department at Britain's secret Porton Down facility and oversaw his country's first attempts to develop biological weapons. Son of a noted ...