Porton Down is a science and defence technology campus in Wiltshire, England, just north-east of the village of Porton, near Salisbury. It is home to two British government facilities: a site of the M
Entrance to secure facilities at Porton Down
2-inch mortar trials, 1917
David Christopher Kelly was a Welsh scientist and authority on biological warfare. A former head of the Defence Microbiology Division working at Porton Down, Kelly was part of a joint US-UK team that
Porton Down
…MoD Boscombe Down and Defence CBRN Centre – neighbouring facilities David Kelly, Lancelot Ware – notable individual connected to Porton Down Rawalpindi experiments – experiments involving the use of mustard gas carried out on British…
Kelly during a Foreign Affairs Select Committee meeting on 15 July 2003, two days before his death
Linacre College, Oxford, where Kelly studied for his doctorate in microbiology
Gruinard Island, which Kelly assisted with decontaminating from weaponised anthrax
Hans Blix, the head of UNMOVIC from March 2000 to June 2003