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Jun 3, 2010
WORLD WAR II
Canada made anthrax bombs
MONTREAL - A TOP secret military lab set up in Canada developed biological weapons for the Allies during World War II, according to a new documentary film aired late on Tuesday by Radio-Canada. In 1943 on Grosse-Ile, a small island in the Saint Lawrence seaway, Canadian scientists produced vast quantities of anthrax to be used in the fabrication of biological bombs. The so-called Project N was one of three great secrets of the war, equal in scope to the Allies' cracking of German signal codes and the development of an atomic bomb, filmmakers Vincent Frigon and Yves Bernard opined.
During this period, the Allies were preparing to wage a biological war against Germany and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sought to obtain 500,000 anthrax bombs. After a few missteps, the lab was closed in August 1944 after producing some 70 billion deadly doses - enough to wipe out the world's population 30 times over - and the research was moved to the United States. Only 5,000 anthrax bombs would be sent to England before the end of the war. 'The (leftover) batches were mixed with solvents, left to sit for awhile and then dumped at the bottom of the Saint Lawrence seaway,' one of the researchers who worked on the project, Thomas Stovell, said in the film. -- AFP
