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Well, the reports did say that Novichok is 5 to 10 times stronger than VX, which is what the North Koreans used on Kim’s half brother, at the Malaysian airport. He died soon after.

There are now antidotes for Novichok and 3/4 of the Brit victims this year survived. There are nerve agents out there that have no antidotes. Doesn't mean they make a complete recovery either.

Haven’t seen any reports that Novichok induces a delayed reaction. Do you have any?

The Russian labs certainly would develop a version with a delayed onset so their intelligence agents can get away. It's what they've done for decades.

You do realize that “ novichok” is basically an altered insecticide and the Russian who first developed the formula thought it was so dangerous as a secret cw agent ( chem formulation outside the rules of international definition of CW) and so difficult to handle that he objected to its use _ defected and published a book about how to make it

Meanwhile the Soviet Union broke up and the CW scientists sold their expertise and stocks of agent from the labs to make money _ novichok was available for a price and was sold to multiple buyers including Latvian mafia who used it to assassinate one of Putins business associates - per a scientist who had stocks of the stuff and sold it

The Russian inventor of “ novichok” now lives in Princeton New Jersey and works for the US ( cw research lab)

Meanwhile various labs made their own copies of “ Novichok”
Ukraine, Kazakhstan ( where the US seized their CW stocks), Czechoslovakia, Iran, and Porton Down among others