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Porton Down is a science and defence technology campus in Wiltshire, England, just north-east of the village of Porton, near Salisbury.
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Jun 13, 2019 · Inside Porton Down, the UK's top secret laboratory, scientists carry out research into chemical weapons and deadly diseases.
Jun 27, 2016 · Porton Down carries out research to ensure that the UK's military and wider public benefit from the latest technical and scientific developments.
Dstl provides the UK with advanced space science, technology, services and advice to monitor, protect and defend our interests in and through space.
May 6, 2004 · Porton Down, founded in 1916, is the oldest chemical warfare research installation in the world. The tight secrecy which has surrounded the ...
The first organized testing of Sarin on humans began in October 1951 at Porton Down in Wiltshire, Britain's biochemical warfare establishment since the First ...
Sep 26, 2018 · Above all, the Salisbury attack has propelled Porton Down – the Ministry of Defence biological and chemical laboratory established during ...
Aug 6, 2023 · One of the UK's most secretive centres of scientific research - Porton Down - is aiming to stop the next pandemic "in its tracks".
It constitutes the largest uninterrupted tract of semi-natural chalk grassland in Britain, a habitat which has declined by more than 80% in the last 50 years.
Porton Down is the oldest chemical warfare research establishment in the world, and has, unsurprisingly, been of interest to animal protection groups, ...