“And for good reason.” Officially known as Gruinard Island, this 484-acre piece of land is better known in Britain by the menacing moniker ‘Anthrax Island’. A remote but accessible island ...

The operation saw the military purchase the remote island and ban locals from visiting. Sheep were then used as test subjects for the subsequent anthrax explosion, with all of the livestock ...

Some months later, on September 26, an airplane dropped a bomb filled with anthrax bacterial spores onto the island, but the bomb became lodged in a bog and thus none of its payload was released.