On Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed what many already suspected: A Russian-made nerve agent was used to try to kill Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England. Given the nature of the weapon, May concluded, either the Russian government sanctioned the attack or it has lost control of its stock of this extraordinarily lethal substance. Moscow is still refusing to provide a straight answer.
A similar question was asked 12 years ago following the discovery that the volatile radioactive substance polonium 210 was used to murder another Russian, Alexander Litvinenko, in London. British forensic scientists were …read more
Source: Time
