This week Britain’s prime minister Theresa May publicly named the nerve agent used in the Salisbury attack as novichok. She also pointed to Russia as the likely culprit. So what do we know about novichok? And how confident can we be that it was the Russians who carried out this attack?
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Last week, the city of Salisbury was thrust into the spotlight when two people were found in critical condition in a local park. Details began to emerge that the man, in his late sixties, was a former Russian spy. The woman found in a comatose state beside him, his daughter. Speculation mounted that they were poisoned, but by what? And by whom?
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