WMD - Mustard Gas near Mold
Eddie Butler tells the story of mustard gas development at the Rhydymwyn Valley Works in the Alyn Valley near Mold in the Second World War. Work on the development of the atomic bomb was also developed here. It was rumoured that Klaus Fuchs, pioneer on the US worked on the atomic bomb in the Second World War and was later jailed for passing nuclear secrets to the USSR.
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