Inside Porton Down: what I learned during three years at the UK’s most secretive chemical weapons laboratory.

Thomas Keegan20 February 2025
My research took me into the heart of the mystery, as I studied its extensive historical archive. The reality was not as I expected.

I came across no aliens, but I did discover records of experiments that ran from the ordinary, through to the bizarre. And sadly, in one isolated case, the lethal.