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)
Quite the skeptic aren’t you.
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.
No, but apparently you can order it from a chemist. A russian banker and his secretary were killed in 1995 by the banker's business partner. With that said, blaming Mossad for this makes zero sense.
I vividly remember the US presenting "evidence" in the UN to start the war in Iraq. None of the allegations held water.
How about holding these affairs to the same standard as crminal trials? Means, having a verifiable chain of custody, presenting the evidence to public scrutiny and having each side challenging the evidence.
One of the main points of Novichok is that its made from non toxic precursors, that are easier to smuggle, which you don't mix until you are about to deploy them.
Scary.