In 1983, a 19-year-old signaller stepped into a chamber at the MOD’s ‘chemical defence establishment’ at Porton Down.
For 30 minutes he walked around in circles to the beat of a metronome while sarin gas was pumped through vents in the room.
That young signaller was Ian Foulkes.
Ian was part of a research effort that ran for more than half a century – it was known as the Human Volunteers Programme.
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