Chinese Archaeologists Find WWII Biological Warfare Lab

Archaeologists have uncovered an underground bunker in northeast China that was purportedly used during the Second World War by Japanese scientists to conduct horrific experiments on human subjects

- VISHWAM SANKARAN

The site at Anda, China, is reported to have been used by the infamous Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army, which conducted some of the most brutal germ warfare experiments between 1935 and 1945.

In these experiments, Japanese scientists dissected live prisoners to determine the effects of pathogens on the human body. The imperial army learnt from these experiments and began to spread typhoid, cholera and plague across China. Some of these human experiments were conducted in underground bunkers in order to contain any potential spread of the pathogens, researchers said.