Assertion: ministry | /r/CapableOf | turn large parts of the country
Facets:
value: into a giant laboratory
type: OTHER
value: between 1979
type: TEMPORAL
value: between 1940
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: A government report covered by The Guardian newspaper in 2002 indicated that between 1940 and 1979, the Ministry of Defence "turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public" and many of these tests "involved releasing potentially dangerous chemicals and micro-organisms over vast swathes of the population without the public being told.