Polonium’s chemical properties made it the ideal secret weapon for the assassins of Alexander Litvinenko.
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A Swiss forensic report of the exhumed remains of ex-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today suggests polonium poisoning may have been the cause of death – but what is polonium, and why is it so deadly…
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