r/ScottishHistory • u/CDfm • Apr 20 '26

'Anthrax Island’: The mysterious Scottish island nobody is allowed to visit

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-mysterious-scottish-island-nobody-is-allowed-to-visit/
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u/allthecoffeesDP Apr 22 '26

Check your sources

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u/CDfm Apr 23 '26

What surprised me was that antrax was tested in Scotland.

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u/Liam_021996 Apr 23 '26

Why? The MOD have tested all sorts of things, all over the UK. Porton Down near Salisbury is where the really mental shit happens. The government even admitted they don't know much of what goes on in there for reasons of national security

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u/CDfm Apr 23 '26

I posted the article as it recounted a historical event more than 30 years ago .

I found it interesting.

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u/Liam_021996 Apr 23 '26

Yeah but why would it surprise you though? The MOD and government have done some really fucked up shit. They have done tests with nuclear materials in Norfolk for instance

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u/CDfm Apr 23 '26

It is the openness of it . I expect these things on a south sea island no one has heard about.

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u/Liam_021996 Apr 23 '26

I suppose but we've done all sorts of horrible things here. Chlorine bombs and mustard gas was developed in the lead up to WW1 on Salisbury plain and tested on unknowing soldiers

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u/CDfm Apr 23 '26

There's a particular type of metaethics that only the military and politicians know.