[BigFinn]

Islamonuts have vowed to destroy America, Israel and the West. Take them very seriously. The point of this entire discussion is that Polonium got through to the UK undetected, didn't it. The guy had links to Islam. Forget the suitcase nukes for the moment... If Putin wanted to get rid of the guy he could do it very efficiently with a spy and a silencer. Why go to all this trouble of Polonium? The PO was there for another reason. Now the question is... how much of that stuff is still out there undetected? And more importantly, who has a hold of it and what do they intend to do with it?

[flintsilver7]

Polonium has two extremely important characteristics in this case:

1) It has legitimate uses, and

2) It is extremely rare.

There are lots of high-energy alpha emitters that are extremely toxic. They don't have much use as terror weapons.

So, to answer your question on "how much of that stuff is still out there undetected" I can pretty safely say not much.

[Empireoftheatom48]

Another question begs to be asked. Why did they use it on just one person? Why not instill terror on a grand scale, maybe all over the UK? It would seem that they gave themselves away prematurely.