MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : GAS-MAN PUTIN’S NOVO CHOC ! / NEW YORK TIMES

 

 

In a blow to Russia, a chemical weapons watchdog announced that the nerve agent used in an attack on a former Russian spy in Britain, up to a half-cup’s worth of liquid, was almost certainly created for use as a weapon, undercutting the Kremlin’s claims that Western research laboratories could have produced it.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is seeking to add the Soviet-developed nerve agent, Novichok, to its list of monitored chemicals, a move that would force Russia to declare production and stockpiles, which Moscow has denied exist.   4. May 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/world/europe/opcw-salisbury-novichok-skripal.html?emc=edit_mbe_20180504&nl=morning-briefing-europe&nlid=7314383320180504&te=1