The weapon Britain hoped would defeat the Nazis...
Sewing machine needle tipped with anthrax was developed for war effort.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-1720008.html
Now this may well not be news for some, but I found it deeply disturbing, (don't ask me why), that this kind of tactic was contemplated by our government at the time. So glad it never saw action.
Tipped with a sewing machine needle and finished with a tail made from a drinking straw, they looked more like a schoolboy's toy than a terrifying weapon. For Britain's wartime scientists, however, these tiny projectiles were the sharp end of a chilling project to secure victory over the Nazis by bombarding German troops with poisoned darts.