World War I & World War II History

Archive for May, 2010

Britain’s secret biological ‘retaliation’ plans for WWII

Information from a set of files detail how Britain was researching human and animal biological warfare techniques during World War II.
The human disease included typhoid and cholera, while animal disease consisted of foot-and-mouth, swine fever and anthrax (which is obviously also harmful to humans).
The reports specify that the research was a potential retaliation to any […]