The UK Biological Weapons Program - Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945 - page 49

tional Defence, work on BW research should continue in peace time...
As an island we are an ideal target for attack by BW methods as our at-
tacker need have no fear that diseases which may spread would recoil
upon himself or upon his allies.” 8
After also being informed that the US was continuing its biological
warfare research, in October 1945 the Defence Committee issued a direc-
tive that “approved the continuation of BW research in peace-time.” 9 Of-
fensive research, according to a statement of biological warfare policy
written five years later, was “implicit” in this general directive. Indeed, a

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
Site of Operation Cauldron (1952) and
Operation Hesperus (1953)

Porton Down

London

Irish Sea

Site of Large Area
Coverage trials (1957)

Weymouth Bay
Sites of Large Area Coverage trials (1964)

Lyme Bay

Figure 3.1 Major sites involved in the UK BW program, and sites of open-
air tests in the British Isles.