14 March, 2018

The Nerve Agent Too Deadly to Use, Until Someone Did - The New York Times

The Nerve Agent Too Deadly to Use, Until Someone Did - The New York Times:

LONDON — For nearly three decades, since a Soviet whistle-blower told the world of its existence, the nerve agent Novichok has scared American weapons experts. The Pentagon sent teams to destroy abandoned laboratories that once produced the chemical, believed to be orders of magnitude more lethal than sarin or VX.
There was no sign of it ever being used. Until last week.


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