Britain's mysterious WW2 'island of death' | BBC News

In the 1960s, the BBC set out to investigate localreports of secret, shocking World War Twoexperiments, dangerous contamination andunexplained animal deaths on a remote island off the coast of Scotland.It was an environmental catastrophe.

The island remained dangerously contaminated and ano-go area for nearly half a century, until, on this day in1990, the UK government finally declared Gruinard Island safe.

The truth was that Gruinard Island had been the site ofa clandestine attempt by the UK during World War Twoto weaponise Anthrax, a deadly bacterial infection.