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Churchill weighed using poison gas in World War II
BBC Newsnight reports Churchill considered drenching German cities with mustard gas in 1944 and ordered a cold calculation on its payoff. Plans for 2700 Allied bombers carrying germ warfare bombs were drawn, naming Berlin Hamburg Stuttgart and Frankfurt as targets. Porton Down officials warned Berlin would be uninhabitable today if carried out.
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