Explosion and fire destroying biological facilities

During the cold war the Russia had at least 20 biological warfare stations known as Biopreparat (Russian: "Biological substance preparation"). Against one in the USA, (Camp Detrick) and two in the UK (MRE Porton, and a production facility at Nancekuke in Cornwall). https://tocsin-bang.000webhostapp.com/biological.html. BTW the Central Veterinary Laboratory, where I worked in the 60s was responsible for monitoring radioactive contamination of grass, following the Windscale fire, this continued until at least 1970 and may still continue.

I served in the Civil Defence Corps from May 1964 (when I became old enough) until March 1968 when we were disbanded with little warning and only a letter of thanks from the Queen. The Corps and its related organisations, the National Hospital Service Reserve, the Auxiliary Fire Service and the Industrial Civil Defence Corps had not simply prepared for the unthinkable, but had been involved in helping at Aberfan and the '53 East Coast Floods and a number of other major disasters. The Royal Observer Corps continued until 1991. The only remnant of civil defence in the UK is the Royal Voluntary Service, who were originally formed (as the WVS, later WRVS) to enable women to work in the support of civil defence. As well as radiological training we were trained in biological and chemical warfare. One of my earliest training sessions was on fitting members of the public with respirators.