It’s not just the ingredients we should be concerned about. The devices themselves release chemicals that end up in our blood and urine.
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Putin’s personal involvement is speculative, but report findings will cast a long shadow over Anglo-Russian relations.
Polonium’s chemical properties made it the ideal secret weapon for the assassins of Alexander Litvinenko.
With the announcement of an inquiry into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, talk of poisons is back in the news. There are many articles with lists of the most poisonous substances, which are often gathered…
The remains of Yasser Arafat have been exhumed for “special testing” to determine whether he died from poisoning by a radioactive element or natural causes. Will the process be akin to what we see on television…
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