It wasn't me. I swear.
Posted on 11/24/2006 7:04:42 AM PST by edpc
Just a headline, as of 10AM.
Polonium is a highly radioactive and toxic element and is dangerous to handle. Even in milligram or microgram amounts, handling polonium-210 is very dangerous and requires special equipment used with strict procedures. Direct damage occurs from energy absorption into tissues from alpha particles.
The maximum allowable body burden for ingested polonium is only 1100 becquerels (0.03 microcurie), which is equivalent to a particle weighing only 6.8 × 10-12 gram. Weight for weight polonium is approximately 2.5 × 1011 times as toxic as hydrocyanic acid. The maximum permissible concentration for airborne soluble polonium compounds is about 7,500 Bq/m3 (2 × 10-11 µCi/cm3).
Certainly sounds like a KGB hit from the past.
Nasty stuff.
How does one hope to deliver such a poison without being poisoned?
Nasty stuff. Why don't the Russians busy themselves offing Islamists instead of guys like Litenko.
RIP Dont forget who killed Mr. Litivenenko.
Sure don't sound like "over-the counter" stuff.
It wasn't me. I swear.
Q: What poison was determined in the death of that Bulgarian dissident in the 70's?
Cigarettes...
The uneducated ARE DEmocrats!
Ricin
> How does one hope to deliver such a poison without being poisoned? <
The question answers itself: One doesn't.
It certainly looks like it had to be handled carefully and with sophisticated equipment. Official involvement will be denied, of course.....but that looks more and more likely given the toxin.
I looked into Pootie Poot's soul, and saw nothing. Nothing at all.
"Q: What poison was determined in the death of that Bulgarian dissident in the 70's?"
was that the one by poisoned tip of an umbrella?
AFX News LimitedEx-Russian spy poisoned by radioactive polonium - hospital source
11.24.2006, 09:50 AMLONDON (AFX) - Former spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by radioactive polonium, a source at the London hospital where he was treated told AFP.
Polonium is an extremely toxic and highly radioactive substance.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that the substance experts initially thought was the heavy metal thallium was found to be polonium after tests.
Excerpted follow link for rest of story
Thanks
"How does one hope to deliver such a poison without being poisoned?"
How about - you don't tell the "messenger" what he's delivering?
I believe the poison there was liquid sarin.
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