Periscope.(poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko)

Newsweek International, December, 2006

Byline: Mark Hosenball, Michael Isikoff and Owen Matthews, John Barry and Gretel Kovach, Sami Yousafzai, Julie Scelfo, David Gates

Russia: Isotope of Death

Until a few days ago, U.S. and British government investigators had never heard of anyone being poisoned by the obscure and unstable isotope polonium 210. Now its extreme rarity is adding to the riddles in the death of exiled former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Who silenced Litvinenko? His family and supporters insist Russian agents did it. Investigators in London think such a lethal dose must have been industrially produced--a job that usually takes not only bismuth metal for raw material but a nuclear reactor to bombard it with...

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works. HighBeam Research

 

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

Please add your comment:

  1. You are currently: a Guest |
  2.  

Basic HTML tags that work in comments are: bold (<b></b>), italic (<i></i>), underline (<u></u>), and hyperlink (<a href></a)

advertisement
Click Here
advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement