In 1942, British scientists carried out a classified military experiment on the remote island of Gruinard off the coast of Scotland. The test involved detonating anthrax spores to evaluate their ...

War has a funny way of turning wild ideas into serious government projects. In the chaos of World War II and the paranoia of the Cold War, military minds across the globe cooked up experiments that ...

"The Liberator" qualifies as an interesting experiment, and not much more -- using digital animation over actual footage (an evolution of the process once known as rotoscoping) to create a highly ...

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