- Horrible Timing. Right before Russia was about to sign the Nordstream pipeline deal with Germany?
- Not so deadly. That spy, Skripal, and his daughter didn’t even die. Remember that this “military grade” nerve agent is supposed to be 100x deadlier than Sarin.
- Porton Down is Nearby. Six miles from Salisbury, where the alleged attack took place, there’s a notorious UK military lab that produced horrible chemical weapons such as VX
- Miraculous Recovery
- Useless Spy
- Novichok Guy Lives in the US
15 REASONS WHY UK SPY POISONING IS A FALSE FLAG ATTACK
Here are the Top 12 reasons why the Russian spy poisoning story is most likely a false-flag attack staged by, well, someone like MI6/CIA/Mossad.
#1 Not so deadly.
That spy, Skripal, and his daughter didn’t even die. Remember that this
“military grade” nerve agent is supposed to be 100x deadlier than
Sarin.
Also, if we are to believe the official story, it took 4-5 hours for the
deadly nerve agent to make the victims sick! They got exposed to
Novichok at their home, then went to a mall, pub and a restaurant,
before their mighty immune systems succumbed to the chemical weapon. So
ridiculous.
#2 Miraculous Recovery Then
they were in “coma” with “permanent brain damage” for a month. However,
when Russian officials wanted to see the daughter — she’s still a
Russian citizen and works in Russia — both the patients miraculously
recovered. Now they both have been released! BUT … they wouldn’t talk to
anyone and we will never see them again (rumor is that they will go
live under CIA protection!).
#3 Useless Spy. No
need for Putin to kill that guy now. Skripal was in Russian prison for
six years. The evil Russians could have easily killed him then. Instead,
the double agent was released and has been in the UK for 8 years. And
his daughter is still a Russian citizen
#4 Horrible Timing.
Right before Putin’s re-election and a few months before the World Cup
Soccer games in Russia? And, most of all, right before Russia was about
to sign the Nordstream pipeline deal with Germany?
#5 Novichok is Easy to Make. Although it’s deadly as hell, it can be made by mixing two ordinary chemicals.
#6 Novichok Guy Lives in the US.
Yeah, one of the original evil scientists from the USSR lives in New
Jersey now and has even written a book in which he reveals the
composition of Novichok. Oh, btw, the US got a patent approved for
antidotes for Novichok in 2015. In 2008, the US gov was testing Novichok
on animals!
#7 Porton Down is Nearby. Six
miles from Salisbury, where the alleged attack took place, there’s a
notorious UK military lab that produced horrible chemical weapons such
as VX. As Boris Johnson admitted, Porton Down also has samples of
Novichok agents.
#8 No Details or Evidence Shown:
The UK hasn’t revealed any details of its findings — medical records,
toxicology reports, spectrometry results etc. Theresa May can’t even
provide the basics — for example, something like, “we found 0.01% of
Novichok-234 in the victims’ blood.” Nothing. Nada. All that the lab has
said so far is, “nerve agent or a related compound.”
The UK gave some samples to the OPCW, which also never mentions “Novichok” in its report. All it said was: toxic substance of high purity! A Swiss lab report said that it found something called “BZ toxin”!
This kind of evidence won’t even be admitted on Judge Judy’s court. And
no biological samples have been provided to Russia. Zero due process. If
some tiny country tried to do this to the US, we will bomb them.
#9 No Visitors Allowed.
Nobody is allowed to visit the Skripals, not even their relatives. And
when Russia demanded to see the daughter (since she’s a Russian
citizen), she miraculously recovered and left the hospital under police
custody! But no visits or interviews. Probably MI6 is doing Psy Ops and
hypnosis on the poor people.
#10 No Manhunt, Suspects. There
are no massive efforts to find or even identify the evil Russian agents
who did it. No CCTV, no witnesses, and no serious efforts to track down
the guy(s) who allegedly deployed the CW.
#11 UK’s Superheroes.
Look at the various pictures of unprotected cops, experts, firemen and
truck drivers hanging out right next to the scary men with hazmat suits
and oxygen tanks. It’s a joke.
#12 Nobody Believes It.
Out of the 197 countries or so, only 27 countries agreed to expel
Russian diplomats. Basically 170 laughed at this joke. Even 11 EU
countries refused to punish Russia. The only true anti-Russian crazies
were USA, UK and Ukraine, who expelled 100 Russian diplomats. The other
24 mostly expelled only 1 or 2.
Germany, for example, has six Russian consulates/embassies, but only asked 4 diplomats to leave. Then a few days later, it approved/signed the Nordstream deal (oil/gas from Russia to EU).
#13 CIA Disappears Skripals? Latest
news is that the Skripals, father and daughter, may go hiding under
CIA’s protection. We will never see them again and hear their
testimonies. How convenient!
#14 Novichok in TV Drama
Just before the incident, a TV drama called Strike Back: Retribution
had a couple of episodes in February and March where evil Russkies
deployed Novichok in the UK. Of course, the elites have to prepare the
dumb masses for the jargon and the concept. (Before this, virtually
nobody had heard of “Novichok”).
#15 Geopolitics.
Putin is screwing up globalists’ Middle East ambitions in Syria and
Iran, and this is the retribution. They will keep waging hybrid wars on
Russia. There will be many false flag attacks and constant provocations
to create excuses to impose sanctions and isolate Russia. The Douma
“chemical attaack” in Syria on April 7th is a perfect example of such a
false flag attack. If you think politics is dirty, geopolitics is a
million times dirtier.
https://worldaffairs.blog/2018/04/01/11-reasons-why-uk-spy-poisoning-is-a-false-flag-attack/
https://worldaffairs.blog/2018/04/01/11-reasons-why-uk-spy-poisoning-is-a-false-flag-attack/
More details and links in my previous blog, Framing Putin.
The British Spy Skripal hoax
by Scott Humor
In regards to the British government-staged hoax around the persona of
retired British spy Sergey Skripal: If TV police dramas told us anything
it’s the principle of Corpus delicti, or “no body, no crime.” It’s the
principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person
can be convicted of committing that crime.
Since February, the British government has been staging a bizarre
theater employing dozens of actors dressed in police and firefighters
uniforms and colorful hazmat suits, all to make the appearance of a
crime being investigated.
Just one fact is enough to understand that an entire “the Skripals poison crime” has never took place. This so called “nerve agent” has never been placed on the OPCW list of banned chemical weapons because it has never existed.
It’s non-existence was confirmed by Dr Robin Black, until recently he
was a head of the detection laboratory at the Defence Science and
Technology Laboratory (Porton Down). He wrote in his review: “…
emphasizes that there is no independent confirmation of Mirzayanov’s
claims about the chemical properties of these compounds: Information on
these compounds has been sparse in the public domain, mostly originating
from a dissident Russian military chemist, Vil Mirzayanov. No
independent confirmation of the structures or the properties of such
compounds has been published. (Black, 2016)
Just like “Novichok” has never existed, no one was poisoned, nothing has happened. It’s a staged provocation and a hoax.
It is a typical war game scenario, in which the game “viruses,” or bits
of fake information, were planted years ago, and now being used as
“evidence” in a staged “crime.” They tell us that nothing proves today
crime as a thirty-year-old newspaper article.
Just accept that everything the British government says is a lie.
For those who want to understand methods and techniques involved in
staging these sort of augmented reality war game operations, I refer to
my war games illustrated manual, “Pokemon in Ukraine.” The
aim of any war game is to engage non-players in it. First step is to
con people into accepting that staged events as real, or as Zakharova
names this process “a legitimization of previously fabricated information.”
It’s been a month since the hoax around the British spy Skripal started.
We still have no hard evidence that an alleged attack ever took place.
We don’t have the victims. No third party medical tests, no CC footage
of the victims, no official meetings with the victims, no samples of
alleged poison; the list goes on and on.
During the briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 15, 2018,
she said: “Britain has not provided any data to anyone,” The truth is
obviously being concealed. No one is providing information about the
incident to anyone.”
In her interview to the newspaper Argumenti (Arguments), Zakharova said that either the British disclose all the facts, or “it’s all lies, from the beginning to the end.”
This stance of the Minister of Foreign Affairs demonstrates a tectonic
shift from a willingness of Russia’s government to play along and accept
war games as real, as it was in case of a staged war in Ukraine in
2014.
On Sunday, I received an email from a famous military defense attorney, Christopher Black, which I am posting here with his permission.
Chris wrote to me a few questions from a defense lawyer.
“Questions to the British Prime Minster from a citizen:
You state Skripal and daughter were poisoned – then where are they?
Where are photos of them? Where are the medical reports stating what is
wrong with them and their present condition?
You state Russians did this – fine then, where are the persons that
administered it, how did they do it, where did they do it and when
did they do it?
You state Russians are involved – but you have not put out any profile
of any suspects nor have you put out a dragnet for any likely suspects
who, if you are right and they did do this, are still then roaming
around the country doing who knows what.
You state this is a national emergency and have police and army in
strange suits on some streets but you have not put police and army
elements at the airports and ports to try to catch the culprits to
prevent them leaving the country.
Having failed to do these obvious things the only conclusion to be drawn is that you are lying to the British people.
We reject Russia was involved for obvious reasons. Therefore we cannot
accept the rest of their claims either without evidence. All we know is
that two people are claimed to have been poisoned. that is all we know –
a claim.” Chris
He also added: “Where is the evidence that an nerve agent was used at all aside from there say so? Now,
they have people chasing their tails arguing whether it is this agent
or that agent, the various affects of them etc. etc, when we have no
evidence that a nerve agent was used.”
“We have no evidence anything ever took place. Litvinenko
– photos of him in a hospital bed every week for months. As for these
two – we don’t even know if they exist, or were eliminated, or who knows
what.”
“Again, I think this line of inquiry is pointless unless and until we see evidence of a nerve agent was used at all.
We should not accept any element
of their story. We have to question every element of their story – for
once you accept one part of it you will be stuck with the rest.”
I only want to add that at the end of this SITREP you can find a list of
articles and research papers conducted by extremely smart and
knowledgeable people and directed to the government of the UK, all
telling them what they did and said wrong. I
have to say with my deepest regret that what all these wonderful people
have done is to provide the British government with free research and
resources to stage another chemical attack hoax, only on much larger
scale.
It’s nothing new for the British government to make similar accusations
against Russia. Actually the United Kingdom has a long history of using
its chemical weapons against Russians, while there is NO evidence that Russians had even used chemical weapons against the British Crown subjects.
Boris Johnson walks in Churchill’s footsteps by accusing Russia in using and stockpiling chemical weapons.
The British Chemical Warfare against the Russians
One of the earliest used chemical weapon in human history was cacodyl oxide. It was proposed as a chemical weapon by the British Empire during the Crimean War against Russia, along with the significantly more potent blood agent, cacodyl cyanide.
During the invasion of Russia by the British Empire and its allies,
France, Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire, in 1853-1856 known as the
Crimean war, the British army used sulfur dioxide during the siege of
Sevastopol in August 1855. In May 1854 the British and French fleets
bombarded Odessa with some “stinky bombs” containing some kind of
poisonous substances.
During the invasion of Russia in 1918-1922, the
Allied troops of the British, American, Canadian and French armies
under the British command used the chemical weapons in Archangelsk in
February 1919, and in August 27, 1919, near the village of Yemtsa, 120
miles South of Arkhangelsk, British artillery opened fire on the
positions of the Red Army fighting with the foreign invaders. After the
explosions green cloud covered the position of the Russian troops,
Russian soldiers trapped in a cloud vomited blood and then fell
unconscious and died. The British forces used CW called adamsite
(dihydrophenarsazine).
“The strongest case for Churchill as chemical warfare enthusiast involves Russia, and was made by Giles Milton in The Guardian on
1 September 2013. Milton wrote that in 1919, scientists at the
governmental laboratories at Porton in Wiltshire developed a far more
devastating weapon: the top secret “M Device,” an exploding shell
containing a highly toxic gas called diphenylaminechloroarsine [DM]. The
man in charge of developing it, Major General Charles Foulkes, called it “the most effective chemical weapon ever devised.” Trials at Porton suggested
that it was indeed a terrible new weapon. Uncontrollable vomiting,
coughing up blood and instant, crippling fatigue were the most common
reactions. The overall head of chemical warfare production, Sir Keith
Price, was convinced its use would lead to the rapid collapse of the
Bolshevik regime. “If you got home only once with the gas you would find
no more Bolshies this side of Vologda.”
According to Giles Milton, the author of Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin’s Global Plot (2013):
“Trials at Porton suggested that the M Device was indeed a terrible new
weapon. The active ingredient in the M Device was
diphenylaminechloroarsine, a highly toxic chemical. A thermogenerator
was used to convert this chemical into a dense smoke that would
incapacitate any soldier unfortunate enough to inhale it… The symptoms
were violent and deeply unpleasant. Uncontrollable vomiting, coughing up
blood and instant and crippling fatigue were the most common features….
Victims who were not killed outright were struck down by lassitude and
left depressed for long periods.”
The use of chemical weapons against Russians was supported in this by
Sir Keith Price, the head of the chemical warfare, at Porton Down.
A staggering 50,000 M Devices were shipped to Russia: British aerial
attacks using them began on 27 August 1919. Bolshevik soldiers were seen
fleeing in panic as the green chemical gas drifted towards them. Those
caught in the cloud vomited blood, then collapsed unconscious. The
attacks continued throughout September on many Bolshevik-held villages.
But the weapons proved less effective than Churchill had hoped, partly
because of the damp autumn weather. By September, the attacks were
halted then stopped.“
“Because an enemy who has
perpetrated every conceivable barbarity is at present unable, through
his ignorance, to manufacture poisoned gas, is that any reason why our
troops should be prevented from taking full advantage of their weapons? The use of these gas shell[s] having become universal during the great war, I
consider that we are fully entitled to use them against anyone pending
the general review of the laws of war which no doubt will follow the
Peace Conference.”
This was how Churchill justified the use of the chemical weapons during
the Atlanta invasion of Russia in 1919, claiming that it was Russians,
who “perpetrated every conceivable
barbarity,” despite the fact that it was Russia who was invaded by the
Allied armies and Russian people who were killed in millions.
How is the invasion of 1919 similar to what the British government is
doing today? How did the British government justify its use of the
chemical weapons against Russian villages? What exactly Russians did to
deserve this?
Churchill ordered General Ironside, in command of the Allied forces, to
make “fullest use” of the chemical weapon because: “Bolsheviks have
been using gas shells against Allied troops at Archangel.”
But where would Russians get those weapons?
John Simkin in Winston Churchill and Chemical Weapons writes:
“Someone leaked this information and Churchill was forced to answer
questions on the subject in the House of Commons on 29th May 1919. Churchill insisted that it was the Red Army who was using chemical warfare: “I
do not understand why, if they use poison gas, they should object to
having it used against them. It is a very right and proper thing to
employ poison gas against them.” His statement was untrue. There
is no evidence of Bolshevik forces using gas against British troops and
it was Churchill himself who had authorised its initial use some six
weeks earlier.”
The British repeated their use of chemical weapons against Russians on
27th August, 1919. when British Airco DH.9 bombers dropped gas bombs on
the Russian village of Emtsa. According to one source: “Bolsheviks
soldiers fled as the green gas spread. Those who could not escape,
vomited blood before losing consciousness.” Other villages targeted
included Chunova, Vikhtova, Pocha, Chorga, Tavoigor and Zapolki. During
this period 506 gas bombs were dropped on the Russians. [John Simkin ]
But that wasn’t the end of the war crimes of the British Crown against
Russia. After withdrawal of the British troops in October 1919, the
remaining chemical weapons were considered to be too dangerous to be
sent back to Britain and therefore they were dumped into the White Sea.
The last time someone in Russia came across the British chemical weapons
was in 2017 a man from Archangelsk found several British shells with iprit, which remains potent after one hundred years.
So, the British government has a proven historical record of laying
false accusations on Russia accusing Russia in using chemical weapons
anagst the British subjects, while using it against Russians. .
Excerpt from a book Churchill’s Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920 By Clifford Kinvig, page 128
“On January 27, major Gilmore, a forward commander there, reported that
“the enemy used a certain percentage of gas shells with no effect.”
Ironside realized that this was a significant development, if only small
in scale, and immediately notified the War Office: “Reports that 3 gas
shells fired by enemy; my 1 gas officer has gone up to investigate. This is first suggestion of enemy using gas in any form, but if it is verified I shall ask for some gas officers and means of repair for masks. There is a plentiful supply of latter here.”
Three gas shells were hardly a major event, and Ironside’s reaction, it will noted, was entirely defensive. Not
so the response from Churchill. The same day, without waiting for
confirmation, he made this “first use” clear to the nation at large in a
formal press statement and at the same time notified
Ironside that the ship would be sailing in the middle of the month,
loaded with gas shells for his various artillery pieces. Ironside still demurred, asking for instructions, since he had not yet verified the report that the Bolsheviks had indeed used the weapon.
Plainly, the general had residual inhibitions. The clearest of
directives from the War Office, however, soon followed. On 7 February the
COGs at Archangel, Murmansk and Constantinople received a message in
cipher from the Director of Military Operations: “Fullest use is now to
be made of gas shell with your forces, or supply by us to Russian forces, as Bolsheviks have been using gas shells against Allied troops in Archangel.” The Secretary of State had wasted no time.
“Some critics have claimed that Churchill, in his keenness to use gas, falsely charged the Bolsheviks with using it first.”
The false flag attack was very simple. There were two unconfirmed
reports that poisonous gas shells were used against the British forces.
The press carried the reports, prompted by the War Office. Same day, the
Director of Military Operations issued the order to use the chemical
weapons.
When it became known, and people started accusing Churchill and the
Allied forces command in using chemical weapons against Russians under
false pretence, Churchill issued a memorandum
“I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have
definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in
favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is
sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a
bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of
lachrymatory gas.
I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised
tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should
be reduced to a minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly
gasses: gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would
spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects
on most of those affected.”
Before the WWII the Britain also used chemical weapons in Afghanistan, India, and Mesopotamia.
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LINKS TO RELATED SOURCES AND RESEARCH
An open letter to the British MP from my old friend and sometimes editor Gerold Rupprecht:
“Dear Prime Minister Theresa May,
I ask you to quickly reverse course and create a constructive relationship with the Russian government.
I watched your speech in parliament with dismay, regarding the Skripal
nerve-gas attempted assassination case declaring a verdict decided
before proper investigation.
Mr. Skripal was not ordered to death or life in prison, but 13 years in
jail by a Russian military court, subsequently released in a swap with
the USA and pardoned, making the hypothesis of Mr. Putin or anyone else
in Russian government ordering his execution preposterous.
You seem to be unapologetically denying objective reality in the best
tradition of George Orwell’s “doublethink” (in his book 1984) where only
appearances, not reality, matter.
A simple drive by shooting, stabbing or accident is much easier to
arrange and almost impossible to trace. It is not as if Mr. Skripal was
hard to have access to (he was still a Russian citizen, had a passport
and a pension to collect).
The CIA preferred to contract out the assassination of Grand Ayatollah
Mohammad Hussain in Beirut to local “Christian” allies, never mind the
more than 80 innocents killed in the process. Assuming Russians wanted
Mr. Skripal dead, arranging a robbery and stabbing is probably a lot
easier. It is self-evident there is no good reason Russians would want
him dead.
Your criminal and intelligence experts all understand the above.
Do you honestly want us to believe there is a secret lab in Russia with
crazy scientists that instead of doing tests on rats prefer high profile
political activists , that they like to try out polonium, nerve gas,
sarin, dioxin, mercury, toxic flowers and unknown poisons, just before
important political events such as Russia’s presidential election March
18th, 2018?
The mentioned gas “Novichok”, was manufactured in Uzbekistan in a
factory that was later cleaned up by a US company. Coincidence?
I refuse to think that you are not too bright or poorly read. One has to
make a determined effort to not be capable of logical thought and not
be informed about the basic facts of the case.
Operation Gladio and the strategy of tension showed
the NATO terror organization, responsible for the Bologna train station
bombing and other false flag massacres such as the Baader-Meinhof Red
Army faction or Red Brigades in Italy (not the Soviet KGB). Never mind Operation Northwoods.
The same kind of people who committed the “Gladio” crimes would be my
prime suspects (MI6, CIA, Ukraine’s SBU, any combination of the
aforementioned). Each one of these events was followed by an enormous
mult-national propaganda campaign. If you have forgotten, it is willful
ignorance on your part.
It appears as if you want to maintain the long established track-record
of bloody false-flag operations in pursuit of political objectives, to
give a pretext to an illegal military aggression.
After the CIA, which tried to kill Fidel Castro more than 600 times they
would never kill a Russian in the UK, out of respect for international
law?
People who have no problems blowing up a large train station, bringing
down three buildings in Manhattan, would they have any hesitation to
kill an ex-spy to justify further hostile actions against another
country to preserve their dominance?
You may want a quick reminder,
“Professional standards require
intelligence professionals to lie, hide information, or use covert
tactics to protect their “cover,” access, sources, and responsibilities.
The Central Intelligence Agency expects, teaches, encourages, and
controls these tactics so that the lies are consistent and supported
(“backstopped”). The CIA expects intelligence officers to teach others
to lie, deceive, steal, launder money, and perform a variety of other
activities that would certainly be illegal if practiced in the United
States. They call these tactics “tradecraft,” and intelligence officers
practice them in all the world’s intelligence services” -Hulnick & Mattausch, “Ethics and Morality in U.S. Secret Intelligence”
It seems the web of lies is falling apart, the attempts to backstop previous lies are getting desperate.
Your government’s official narrative is the height of idiocy.
Changing course to improve relations with Russia can and will improve
your political support. It is obvious you have much to gain as well as
your countrymen.
Sincerely,
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NEWS IN BRIEF AND USEFUL LINKS
- On Not Being Refuted – Several million people have now read my articles on the lack of evidence of Russian government guilt for the Salisbury attack.
- Findings of 2016 Iranian study on novichok derivatives sent to OPCW
- First Recorded Successful Novichok Synthesis was in 2016 – By Iran, in Cooperation with the OPCW
- The brief history of British spies, “virgin queen worshipers,” and their bizarre occult traditions in the “Anatomyzing Divinity,” Jay Dyer Interview with Author James Kelley. Starts at 50 minutes. Both are renowned authors in the Eastern Orthodox Theology
- The curious case of the Salisbury poisonings
- Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Rossiya’24 TV channel on Saturday: “Neither in the territory of the Soviet Union, nor in the Soviet era, nor in the Russian Federation has ever been performed research named directly or codenamed as Novichok,” she said.
- ‘I Think Skripal Attempted Murder Staged by US, UK Intel’ – Political Scientist
- “Russia Did It!” Authored by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com,
- Zerohedge reposted the article.
- Some readers comments are very helpful, like Looney’s timetable of alleged events pointing to a complete absurdity of the UK government’ claims.
- JohninMK provided excerpts from Craig Murray’s articles on the matter.
- Russian to Judgment
- Of A Type Developed By Liars
- Former MI6 spy Steele to give evidence in ‘dossier’ libel case
- US training Syria militants for false flag chemical attack as basis for airstrikes – Russian MoD
- Moscow expels 23 UK diplomats & shuts British Council in response to ‘provocative moves’
- ‘Not proxy’: Lavrov says US, British, French special forces ‘directly involved’ in Syria war
- TASS just posted a statement that this agent was never developed or manufactured in Russia.
- ‘It’s nonsense’ to think Russia tried to poison Skripals ahead of elections & World Cup – Putin
- Section II. Militarily Significant Aspects of Chemical Agents
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Salisbury nerve agent attack reveals $70 million Pentagon program at Porton Down
- At least 122,000 animals used for military chemical and biological experiments at Porton Down
- Ebola as bioweapon
- Chemical agent tests
- Coincidence: Guinea pigs at Porton Down and at the home of the poisoned ex-spy
- Porton Down scientists test chemical gas on London Tube passengers
Signs prohibiting access near to the Porton Down Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, near Salisbury, Britain, March 19, 2018.
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
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