Interview with Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

Chemical weapons expert turned Cambridge don reflects on conspiracy theorists in academia, making safe a 60-tonne bomb with science and breaking the world press-up record

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#1 Submitted by st clair stewart on September 23, 2023 - 6:09pm

I was in the OTC at university and then the TA, On an officers training course at Mons in 1965(?) I met an officer on the staff of instructors called de Bretton-Gordon. Any connection?

Interview with Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

Chemical weapons expert turned Cambridge don reflects on conspiracy theorists in academia, making safe a 60-tonne bomb with science and breaking the world press-up record

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