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Irish photographer Dara McGrath documents British landscapes in connection with chemical and biological warfare.

His work, project Cleansweep, has used its name from a 2011 Ministry of defence report on The Risk of the remaining contamination in the 14 UK sites, in the manufacture, storage and disposal of chemical and biological weapons.

Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire

is A railway connection to Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, was used for the temporary storage and transfer of chemical weapons to the forward filling depots scattered in the rural Eastern England, for the contingency against an Invasion of the German Army in the second World War .

Today, it is the Pasture .

Tunnel in Rhydymwyn, Flintshire

The Valley , an 87-acre (0. 3-sq-km) site, Rhydymwyn, Flintshire, was the stronghold of the manufacture and storage of bulk solids in the chemical weapons such as mustard gas. It was also involved with nuclear weapons Research .

Old posters on the wall, in Rhydymwyn

At its peak, who worked during the second World War , 2,200 People at the Rhydymwyn system.

The Site closed in 1960. And in 2008, 21 of The Buildings and tunnels, such as the ancient scheduled Monuments have been listed.

The Site at Rhydymwyn has been to a nature reserve

On 104 acres, maintenance-unit 28, in Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte Hill, Derbyshire, the largest UK-Desk and depot for chemical weapons during The War .

After The War The Site was used for the disposal of captured chemical weapons, until its closure in 1960.

Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte Hill, Derbyshire

in addition to the locations in The Report , McGrath identified a further 92 places.

Gruinard Island , on the North-west coast of Scotland, was The Site of The First biological warfare test by British military scientists, 1942 .

Gruinard Island , North-west of Scotland

the Eighty sheep were taken to The Island and tied up, while bombs filled with anthrax-ignited spores were in the vicinity.

Former warning signs for Gruinard Island

In April 1990, after a four-year decontamination program, which was The Island finally declared safe for The Public .

Gruinard Island remains Uninhabited

In the 1950s, the chemical defence establishment at Nancekuke, Cornwall was the main site for the production of nerve agents in the UK.

When it is closed, remains of the contaminated buildings and equipment were then in the mine-shafts and quarries on The Site .

The former chemical weapons plant is now a military radar Station .

Fencing in Nancekuke, Cornwall

- operation cauldron was a series of secret biological warfare trials in the year 1952.

the scientists from Porton Down and the Royal Navy released biological agents in front of the coast of The Isle of Lewis, in the examination of the impact on the 3,500 cage, Guinea pigs, and monkeys.

Prior to these tests, a series of mock-trials were held on the Sandown Bay on The Isle of Wight.

People on The Beach of Sandown Bay , Isle of Wight

a Similar scattering studies found in Lyme Bay, Dorset, between 1963 and 1975.

part of a larger secret test program, they involved the injection of live and dead bacteria from a boat.

its spread was observed in More Than 60 mobile detection sites, disguised as measurement stations for weather and air pollution.

Lyme Bay, Dorset.

an international Treaty, The Threat of their use remains, Although the large-scale dissemination of chemical and biological weapons was stopped.

In the year 2018, the former Russian Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia, were poisoned by a nerve agent, Novichok on the handle of the door of your house.

Dawn Sturgess later lost their lives due to accidental spraying of the connection, from a discarded perfume bottle in The Attack used.

An estimated 600 to 800 specially trained Military Personnel , the decontamination of the Skripals' house and other locations in and around Salisbury , spent over 13,000 hours.

Salisbury , Wiltshire

The book-project Cleansweep is from the publishers Kehrer Verlag.

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Source of news: bbc.com