Gruinard Island (Eileann Ghruinneard), between Giirloch and Ullapool on the Scottish East Highland Coast.  A peaceful place today - I have even seen the area recommended as a destination for a quiet vacation on holiday sites, without any mention of its ... interesting place in the history of WW2 as the testing site of the least funny of Churchill's funny weapons - the anthrax bomb.  JR.

Peace, perfect Peace ?

Major General Pajari being carried by his fellow generals. Tampere, Finland, October 21, 1949.

Funerals

This is a &quot;topical&quot; anthrax sore; it looks bad enough.  Anthrax is, essentially, a soil-borne disease of herbivores, normally ingested while feeding.  However, it can also infect topically (by touch), and in the breath.  Humans, in the distant past, generally contracted anthrax topically or (in the cases of professions such as farmers and tanners, who had a high level of contact with infected animals) through inhalation. 

The principle of the UK anthrax bomb was to enable the targets to inhale the anthrax endospores in aerosol form.  The experiments on Gruinard Island were successful in developing devices capable of producing this effect on a wide scale.  JR.