Porton Down, Chemical Defence

PRO, WO/42/26, Porton Down Chemical Defence Establishment, Correspondence 1939-1945. 

Chamberlain S, Cook JM, Spayer J et al. (1997). Physiological and psychological effects of breathing resistance on the respirator wearer. Report CBD/MC/TR97/158. Porton Down, UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Chemical and Biological Defence Sector. 

Ryan, S., and P. McNelly. 2003. Eliminating Russian nerve agent weapons. Proceedings of the 2003 Chemical Weapons Demil Conference. Porton Down, England Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. 

Toward the end of 1964, British scientist Dr. Bill Ladell invited me to visit Porton Down, where the secret Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment was located. Bill thought I would find it useful to observe an LSD field test, which was designed to test the ability of highly trained LSD-dosed commandos to defend their position against undrugged attackers. ... 

Porton Down, Salisbury, England Chemical Defence Establishment. 1975. 35 p. 

Balfour, D.J.K, Studies on the uptake and metabolism of H-CR by guinea pig cornea. Porton Down, Wiltshire, England Chemical Defence Establishment Technical Paper No. 191. 1975. 25 p. 

D. Gall Chemical Defence Establishment, Porton Down, personal communication, 1982. 134, 135... 

PRO, WO 33/1014, 2nd Annual Report of the Chemical Defence Research Establishment, Porton Down (1922). 

Forensic Toxicology Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Chemical Defence Establishment, Porton Down, 29-30 June 1972,B>. Ballantyne (Ed.), Bristol, John Wright, 1974. Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients, Washington, American Pharmaceutical Association and London, pharmaceutical Press, 1985. 

Bramwell, E.C.B., Ladell, W.S.S., Shephard, R.J. (1963). Human exposure to VX vapour. PTP 830. Chemical and Biological Defence Estahlishment, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. 

Callaway, S., Dimhuber, P. (1971). Estimation of the concentration of nerve agent vapour required to produce measured degrees of miosis in rabbit and human eyes. Technical Paper No. 64. Chemical Defence Research Estahlishment, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. 

McKee, W.H.E., Woolcott, B. (1949). Report on exposures of unprotected men and rabbits to low concentrations of nerve gas vapour. PRP-143. Chemical Defence Research Establishment, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. 

Sim, V.M. (1956). Effect on pupil size of exposure to GB vapour. Porton Technical Paper 531. Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Directorate of Chemical Defence Research and Development, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. 

Holland, P., White, R.G., Colllnge, B. 1971 Atropine Sulphate Absorption In Humans Following Intra Muscular Injection of a Mixture of The Oxime, P2S, And Atropine. Technical Note No. 68, Chemical Defence Establishment, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wilts. 

Dr. David Gall at the government chemical defence establishment Porton Down, hypothesized that ricin could be the only possible poison used, owing to the exceptionally small dose and the symptoms Markov had experienced. 

Fig. 1.31 From left to right a Livens container (phosgene), a 4 Stokes (Mortar Bomb (chloropicrin) and a 6" shell (mustard gas), found buried at Bramley in 1987 (reproduced with permission of the Chemical Defence Establishment, Porton Down). They all exhibit an advanced state of corrosion.

Battenshy, J., Creasey, N.H., and Grace, T.J., A comparison and evaluation of the whole body plethysmograph and the guinea pig eye-hlink procedures for estimating the potency of sensory irritants, Technical Paper Number 301, dated 1981, Chemical Defence Establishment, Porton Down, Wiltshire, UK, 1981. 

Holland, P. and Seabright, M., Effects of CS on lymphocyte chromosome structure, in Clinical and Preclinical Studies on Ortho Chlorobenzylidene Malononitrile (CS), Technical Note Number 82, Chemical Defence Establishment, Porton Down, Wiltshire, UK, 1971. 

Jarvis, A. and Wart, C.J., An investigation into the composition of the white screening smoke composition PN 80. Part 2. Efficiency of smoke production, heats of combustion, temperatures and burning, CDE Technical Paper No. 38, Dated April 1971, Chemical Defence Establishment, Porton Down, Wiltshire, 1971. 

Under actual field conditions, the measured decay of GD is rapid (McGuire et al., 1993). The Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down (Salisbury, UK) conducted... 

Technical Note 989. Porton Down, UK Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment. 

Wetherell A and Gwyther R (1993). Effects of IPE on speech transmission and reception. Unpublished report. Porton Down, UK Chemical and Biological Defence Estabhshment. 

Kemp KH and Weatherell A (1975). The subjective detection of CR contamination in drinking water. CDE Technical Note, Number 238, dated June 1975. Porton Down, Salisbury, UK Ministry of Defence, Chemical Defence Establishment. 

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