.@Reuters: "The Soviet Union’s chemical weapons programme was in such disarray in the aftermath of the Cold War that some toxic substances and know-how could have got into the hands of criminals"https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-russia-stockpiles/secret-trial-shows-risks-of-nerve-agent-theft-in-post-soviet-chaos-experts-idUKKCN1GQ2RO …
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@guardian: "British scientists at the Porton Down defence research laboratory have not established that the nerve agent used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal was made in Russia, it has emerged." This contradicts the UK govt's stance: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/03/porton-down-experts-unable-to-verify-precise-source-of-novichok …pic.twitter.com/wHMIifsZgk
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@ewenmacaskill reports on the sound reasons for skepticism over the May government’s Salisbury novichok claims.@CraigMurrayOrg: “I am not ruling out that it could be Russia, though I don’t see the motive. I want to see where the evidence lies”https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/15/uks-claims-questioned-doubts-emerge-about-source-of-salisburys-novichok …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@jeremycorbyn: "we should [not] resign ourselves to a “new cold war” of escalating arms spending, proxy conflicts across the globe and a McCarthyite intolerance of dissent. Instead, Britain needs to uphold its laws and its values without reservation."https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/15/salisbury-attack-conflict-britain-cold-war …Show this thread -
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@simonjenkins4: “No one has a clue about the Wiltshire poisonings – though the most obvious motive is someone out to embarrass Vladimir Putin”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/05/novichok-wiltshire-poisoning-russia-putin-world-cup …Show this thread
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