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What Russian Scientists Are Saying About Nerve Agents

“Your eyes grow narrow, you lose vision. Next is vomiting, breathing problems, and incessant convulsions.”
Source: Peter Nicholls / Reuters

It’sparalyzing. It can be lethal. And only a state actor is capable of producing it. This much we know about the class of nerve agents known as Novichok, a type of which British authorities say was used earlier this month to poison a former Russian spy, his daughter, and a British police officer in the English city of Salisbury. But that leaves room for substantial mystery. Who developed it? How did it end up in Salisbury? And how

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