Mike Kenner

• Mike Kenner on Twitter (https://twitter.com/wellbright)
• The Night Ferry Blog (http://nightferry.wordpress.com/)
• Experiments R Us on YouTube

(http://www.youtube.com/user/experimentsrus)

Items mentioned in (or otherwise relevant to) the interview:

• "The Lyme Bay Trials 1966" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTwQJ1ASyws)

• ITV's "Top Secrets Revealed"

  • (Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ydm8rgF18I)

  • (Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hqqb0MWQ18)

• BBC's "Clouds of Secrecy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAixiVAcJsk)

• External PDF: "Zinc Cadmium Sulphide Dispersion Trials : Report by the Academy of Medical Sciences to the Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Defence, on the Zinc Cadmium Sulphide dispersion trials undertaken in the United Kingdom between 1953 and 1964", Academy of Medical Sciences (December 1999)

• External PDF: "Health Effects of Project SHAD Chemical Agent : Zinc Cadmium Sulfide", Prepared for the National Academies

  by The Center for Research Information, Inc., The US National Academies (2004)

• The Railway Coach Trials: front page of the Ministry of Supply report "Possibilities of Clandestine Attacks on Personnel in Railway Trains with Biological Agents."

• Top Secret note (30 May 1963) from the Chief Scientist outlining the "biological trials undertaken outside the confines of W.D. establishments".

  • Cover note

"I am convinced of the vital need for those trials which impose no hazard for the public, although clearly, knowledge of them by unauthorised persons could be politically embarrassing." (Underlining added.)

• • Page 1

  • Page 2

• Map of The Lyme Bay Trials 1963-1964 showing the ship's tracks and the sampling positions used.

• Map of The Lyme Bay Trials 1964-1965 showing the ship's tracks and the sampling positions used.

  • Data Page 1

  • Data Page 2

• Internal PDF: US version of the report on The Dice Trials (US/UK Collaborative Tests 1975) [large file, 10.3 Mb]

• Letter of June 1999 from DERA (the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency of the UK Ministry of Defence), in which they say:

 "In the event of a military question arising which could only be answered by conducting open air trials in areas which may involve the general public, Ministers have made it clear that they cannot rule out the need to conduct larger scale trials in the future to try to ensure the protection of the UK from attacks by people from states using biological or chemical weapons." (Underlinings added.)

Podcast theme music: Chillout Me, kindly provided by Antony Raijekov, from his Jazz U compilation (CC BY-NC 2.5).

Part One image source: The MOD's infamous 'dual-use' Icing Tanker Aircraft in 1967; courtesy of Mike Kenner.

Part Two image source: Porton Down's two preferred methods of spraying zinc cadmium sulphide from a moving ground source (a Land Rover with rear-mounted spray equipment, and the clandestine van as used during the Cardington Trials); courtesy of Mike Kenner.