Poison Darts and World War II

Back in 1941, England looked into dropping poison darts from planes on German troops. This was when Britain was facing a possible Nazi invasion after the fall of France. The National Archives made public formerly top secret documents. They show that plans called for packing more than 30,000 darts into a single cluster bomb that could saturate a zone where enemy forces were exposed. They had already tested the poisoned darts against sheep and goats at a biological weapons station in Canada. However, they were never used again humans for military purposes. Wouldn't that have been horrendous?

Kremlin Boots 4 British Diplomats

Russia retaliated against Britain in an escalating diplomatic fight July 20, but President Vladimir Putin sought to calm what he called a mini-crisis over his refusal to extradite a suspect in the murder of a Kremlin critic in London. Putin appeared intent on keeping the dispute over alleged Russian involvement in former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko's slaying from harming trade and investment ties. While Putin tried to play down the fight, he also suggested it was up to Britain to back off in the confrontation.