Polonium-210: A pretty good way to horribly murder somebody

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Here’s some grist for anyone who wants to speculate:

  • Russian investigative journalist and Dumas member Yuri Shchekochikhin
    died in July 2003 of Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis caused by an
    unknown agent.
  • Russian bodyguard Roman Tsepov was killed with an unknown
    radiological substance     in September 2004.
  • Yasser Arafat took ill in October 2004 and died the next month.
  • Russian dissident Alexander Litvenko was murdered with polonium in
    November 2006.
  • Russia produces 97% of the world’s known polonium.
  • the Russian exhumation report on Arafat finding no polonium seems to
    be “an inferior study”.
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