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by hugh4life
3020 days ago
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Vil Mirzayanov(who lives in the US) apparently wrote the forumula for Novichok in a book available on Amazon. https://twitter.com/mashant/status/973930996918865920 "It's the Russians... unless it's anybody else who got the formula from my book (Kindle edition is only $8 on Amazon), Novichok whistle-blower Mirzayanov tells AFP" "The only other possibility, he said, would be that someone used the formulas in his book to make such a weapon." (I personally find it a bit difficult to believe they would actually put the formula for dangerous nerve agent in a book but that's what's reported) |
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As the author explained, knowing what the chemical is doesn't help you much with making it, and such information was already available for Sarin and others. Producing these chemicals is a difficult engineering challenge, and incredibly dangerous. Even in the professional labs, people died trying to produce them.