Proper noun
Porton
A village in Idmiston parish, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1936).
Both these facets of Porton Down's work had become more important because of the situation in Northern Ireland. citation In the early 1950s, nerve agents such as sarin were produced in small quantities—about 20 tons were made from 1954 until 1956. Source: Internet
Biological warfare testing main Gruinard was the site of a biological warfare test by British military scientists from Porton Down in 1942, during the Second World War. Source: Internet
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, British postwar chemical weapons research was based at the Porton Down facility. Source: Internet
The same day a sealed package of soil was left outside the military research facility at Porton Down ; tests revealed that it contained anthrax bacilli. Source: Internet
The toxicity did not go unnoticed, and samples of it were sent to the research facility at Porton Down for evaluation. Source: Internet
The toxicity did not go unnoticed and some of the more toxic materials had in fact been sent to the British Armed Forces research facility at Porton Down for evaluation. Source: Internet