Russian Chemical Weapon attack in Salisbury

[chalga]

Litevenko was smuggling nuclear materials for his Security Service employer..

 

type this into any search engine.

 

It was an accident rigged to look like a deliberate poisoning.

Two dozen locations in London - and across Europe, and 3-4 Airlines tested positive for Polonium 210.

What interested investigators most was that on the planes were three of Litevenko's associates. One being Andre Lugov who met with Litevenko in the Millenium Hotel - the site with the highest level of Polonium contamination.

Litevenko was employed by Boris Berezovski whose offices also tested positive for polonium 201..

Berozovsky was found dead in his sauna, just a the enquiry into the death of Litevenko was about to begin????

Another of Berezovsky's associates fell from a fourth floor window and impaled himself on railings.....

 

But don't let this information get in the way of the MSM brainwashing propaganda.

 

Please - show evidence that 'Russia is engaged in a war with all normal countries.'

Then show where Russia has a military presence in and surrounding EVERY country on this planet... including your own...

 

Everything that you have wrote here is a lie,this is what happened,as you can see from the dates of everything that happened,it makes everything that you have wrote nonsense.:

 

http://anemptyglass.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Polonium trails

Detectives traced three distinct polonium trails in and out of London. The trails were left by Litvinenko, Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun. The patterns and levels of radioactivity they left behind suggested that Litvinenko ingested Polonium, whereas Lugovoy and Kovtun handled it directly. The human body dilutes Polonium before excreting it in sweat, which results in a reduced radioactivity level. There were also traces of [210Po] found at the Hey Jo/Abracadabra bar, Dar Marrakesh restaurant, and Lambeth-Mercedes taxis.

 

The poisoning of Litvinenko took place at around 5 pm of 1 November in the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square. The bus he travelled in to the hotel had no signs of radioactivity – but large amounts had been detected at the hotel.] Polonium was subsequently found in a fourth-floor room and in a cup in the Pine Bar at the hotel. After the Millennium bar, Litvinenko stopped at the office of Boris Berezovsky. He used a fax machine, where the radioactivity was found later. At 6 pm Akhmed Zakayev picked Litvinenko up and brought him home to Muswell Hill. The amount of radioactivity left by Litvinenko in the car was so significant, the car was rendered unusable. Everything that he touched at home during the next three days was contaminated. His family was unable to return to the house even six months later. His wife was tested positive for ingesting Polonium but did not leave a secondary trail behind her. This suggested that anyone who left a trail could not have picked up the Polonium from Litvinenko (possibly, including Lugovoy and Kovtun).

 

Besides Litvinenko, only two people left the Polonium trails: Lugovoy and Kovtun who were school friends and worked previously for Russian intelligence in the KGB and the GRU respectively. These people handled the radioactive material directly and did not ingest it, because they left more significant traces of Polonium than Litvinenko.

 

Lugovoy and Kovtun met Litvinenko in the Millennium hotel bar twice, on 1 November (when the poisoning took place), and earlier, on 16 October. Trails left by Lugovoy and Kovtun started on 16 October, in the same sushi bar where Litvinenko was poisoned later, but at a different table. It was assumed that their first meeting with Litvinenko was either a rehearsal of the future poisoning, or an unsuccessful attempt of the poisoning.

 

Traces left by Lugovoy were also found in the office of Berezovsky that he visited on 31 October, a day before his second meeting with Litvinenko. Traces left by Kovtun were found in Hamburg, Germany. He left them on his way to London on 28 October. The traces were found in passenger jets BA875 and BA873 from Moscow to Heathrow on 25 and 31 October, as well as flights BA872 and BA874 from Heathrow to Moscow on 28 October and 3 November.

 

Andrey Lugovoy has said he flew from London to Moscow on a 3 November flight. He stated he arrived in London on 31 October to attend the football match between Arsenal and CSKA Moscow on 1 November. When the news broke that a radioactive substance had been used to murder Litvinenko, a team of scientists rushed to find out how far the contamination had spread. It led them on a trail involving hundreds of people and dozens of locations.

 

British Airways later published a list of 221 flights of the contaminated aircraft, involving around 33,000 passengers, and advised those potentially affected to contact the UK Department of Health for help. On 5 December they issued an email to all of their customers, informing them that the aircraft had all been declared safe by the UK's Health Protection Agency and would be re-entering service.

Edited March 26, 2018 by chalga

[hobinfoot]

The US and European countries are expelling Russian diplomats. They wouldn't do this without good reason. Or are they so stupid that anything Britain says goes? If it's the latter I'm surprised that we are so powerful.

[mort]

Back on topic please

[apelike]

Litevenko was smuggling nuclear materials for his Security Service employer..

 

That is a possibility especially as Polonium was one of the first materials used in the trigger for an atom bomb. Modern bombs don't use it anymore but it still can be used for one. (opps.. just seen the bit by mort) It can also be used for poisoning and some will be store at Porton Down also.

Edited March 26, 2018 by apelike

[catpus]

That is a possibility especially as Polonium was one of the first materials used in the trigger for an atom bomb. Modern bombs don't use it anymore but it still can be used for one. (opps.. just seen the bit by mort) It can also be used for poisoning and some will be store at Porton Down also.

 

Heat Source

The high alpha emission rate of some Po isotopes makes them a compact and lightweight source of energy. For example, one gram of Po-210 produces 137W of heat and 1/2 gram of Po-210 will reach 500 °C. This makes Po-210 a good energy source candidate in spacecraft/satellites where volume and weight are critical. Traditionally, Po-238 has been used as an energy source in space exploration but other isotopes, including Po-210, have been investigated as well. There has also been interest in coupling a Po source with a thermoelectric cell to produce power for spacecraft. However, this solution is losing traction since the short half-life of most Po isotopes precludes their use in long missions.

Neutron Source

When combined with a low-atomic weight element (most commonly beryllium), Po-210 can be utilized as a neutron source. Alpha particles emitted from Po-210 are absorbed by the second element, emitting a neutron in the process. The polonium-beryllium pair was used in early nuclear weapons as a neutron initiator. The two elements were kept separated by materials such as nickel and gold until a chemical explosion caused a mixing of the two. This neutron initiator was typically placed in the core of a fission fuel (such as plutonium) so that the onset of neutron emission coincided with the fuel reaching super-criticality (through compression). However, as with other uses of Po-210, the short half-life made it impractical to use since the shelf life of any weapon would be directly related to the half-life. Modern neutron emitters utilize a small-scale linear accelerator, or "neutron tube," which has a much longer shelf life and the added benefit of being able to control the neutron emission rate.

Poison

The use of Po-210 as a poison was made famous in the popular media with the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. Since Po-210 is an alpha emitter, it is relatively harmless exterior to the body.

However, if it is consumed or inhaled, the alpha radiation can cause severe damage to internal cells.

It was reported that Litvinenko was poisoned with a small amount of Po-210 but initial medical tests did not determine the cause since Po-210 is a very weak gamma emitter (typical radiation measuring equipment relies on gamma radiation). Since it is extremely difficult to produce (and expensive) any appreciable amount of Po-210 and is typically easily traced, it is unlikely to become a common weapon or poison.

© Chris Yu. The author grants permission to copy, distribute and display this work in unaltered form, with attribution to the author, for non-commercial purposes only.

 

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"Specialist narrowed down the lethal poison to the radio-active substance polonium 210 shortly before Litvinenko died.

The fatal dose could have cost close to 20 MLN pounds."

 

What on earth was Litevenko involved in that would warrant a 20 million pound hit?

 

It was NOT murder, but a smuggling accident. IMO.

[chalga]

In her Commons statement on UK national security and Russia, May said the government had evidence that Russia, which claimed it had destroyed its chemical weapons stockpile, had explored ways of exporting them.

 

“We have information indicating that within the last decade, Russia has investigated ways of delivering nerve agents, probably for assassination, and as part of this programme has produced and stockpiled small quantities of novichok. Clearly, that is in contravention of the chemical weapons convention.”

 

The prime minister also said that since the attack Russia had advanced 21 different arguments to try to distance itself from the attacks.

 

“They provided no explanation as to why Russia has an undeclared chemical weapons programme, in contravention of international law. No explanation that they could have lost control of their nerve agent, and no explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the United Kingdom,” she said.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/26/130-people-feared-exposed-to-novichok-in-spy-attack-says-pm

[catpus]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-weird-world-of-boris-berezovsky-alexander-litvinenkos-inquest-has-provided-an-intriguing-insight-10117927.html

 

Lots of very interesting stuff here... For those who have the will to learn.

[Robin-H]

Heat Source

The high alpha emission rate of some Po isotopes makes them a compact and lightweight source of energy. For example, one gram of Po-210 produces 137W of heat and 1/2 gram of Po-210 will reach 500 °C. This makes Po-210 a good energy source candidate in spacecraft/satellites where volume and weight are critical. Traditionally, Po-238 has been used as an energy source in space exploration but other isotopes, including Po-210, have been investigated as well. There has also been interest in coupling a Po source with a thermoelectric cell to produce power for spacecraft. However, this solution is losing traction since the short half-life of most Po isotopes precludes their use in long missions.

Neutron Source

When combined with a low-atomic weight element (most commonly beryllium), Po-210 can be utilized as a neutron source. Alpha particles emitted from Po-210 are absorbed by the second element, emitting a neutron in the process. The polonium-beryllium pair was used in early nuclear weapons as a neutron initiator. The two elements were kept separated by materials such as nickel and gold until a chemical explosion caused a mixing of the two. This neutron initiator was typically placed in the core of a fission fuel (such as plutonium) so that the onset of neutron emission coincided with the fuel reaching super-criticality (through compression). However, as with other uses of Po-210, the short half-life made it impractical to use since the shelf life of any weapon would be directly related to the half-life. Modern neutron emitters utilize a small-scale linear accelerator, or "neutron tube," which has a much longer shelf life and the added benefit of being able to control the neutron emission rate.

Poison

The use of Po-210 as a poison was made famous in the popular media with the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. Since Po-210 is an alpha emitter, it is relatively harmless exterior to the body.

However, if it is consumed or inhaled, the alpha radiation can cause severe damage to internal cells.

It was reported that Litvinenko was poisoned with a small amount of Po-210 but initial medical tests did not determine the cause since Po-210 is a very weak gamma emitter (typical radiation measuring equipment relies on gamma radiation). Since it is extremely difficult to produce (and expensive) any appreciable amount of Po-210 and is typically easily traced, it is unlikely to become a common weapon or poison.

© Chris Yu. The author grants permission to copy, distribute and display this work in unaltered form, with attribution to the author, for non-commercial purposes only.

 

---------- Post added 26-03-2018 at 20:24 ----------

 

"Specialist narrowed down the lethal poison to the radio-active substance polonium 210 shortly before Litvinenko died.

The fatal dose could have cost close to 20 MLN pounds."

 

What on earth was Litevenko involved in that would warrant a 20 million pound hit?

 

It was NOT murder, but a smuggling accident. IMO.

 

The cost actually gives even more evidence to it being a state sponsored assassination.

 

The polonium used to kill Mr Litvinenko would have cost “tens of millions of dollars” if bought on the open commercial market. Such a costly method of assassination would not have appealed to a criminal organisation, but it would have come free to a Russian state-sponsored operation, simply being delivered from a government-owned reactor. There is no suggestion of a black market in polonium operating anywhere in the world. The only facility in Russia said to be producing polonium-210 is Avangard, a laboratory owned by the federal nuclear agency Rosatom.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11381789/The-assassination-of-Alexander-Litvinenko-20-things-about-his-death-we-have-learned-this-week.html

[chalga]

The cost actually gives even more evidence to it being a state sponsored assassination.

 

The polonium used to kill Mr Litvinenko would have cost “tens of millions of dollars” if bought on the open commercial market. Such a costly method of assassination would not have appealed to a criminal organisation, but it would have come free to a Russian state-sponsored operation, simply being delivered from a government-owned reactor. There is no suggestion of a black market in polonium operating anywhere in the world. The only facility in Russia said to be producing polonium-210 is Avangard, a laboratory owned by the federal nuclear agency Rosatom.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11381789/The-assassination-of-Alexander-Litvinenko-20-things-about-his-death-we-have-learned-this-week.html

 

 

8 Between 1996 and 2001, Kovtun lived in Germany, working as a waiter in an Italian restaurant in Hamburg. There, he became friendly with a waiter referred to in court as D3. On Oct 28 2006, Kovtun flew from Moscow to Hamburg with a phial of polonium. Two days later, he met D3 and asked him if he knew a chef in London who would be willing to poison food or drink. Kovtun described Mr Litvinenko as “a traitor with blood on his hands” who dealt with terrorists from Chechnya. D3 did not take him seriously until after Mr Litvinenko’s death.

[Robin-H]

8 Between 1996 and 2001, Kovtun lived in Germany, working as a waiter in an Italian restaurant in Hamburg. There, he became friendly with a waiter referred to in court as D3. On Oct 28 2006, Kovtun flew from Moscow to Hamburg with a phial of polonium. Two days later, he met D3 and asked him if he knew a chef in London who would be willing to poison food or drink. Kovtun described Mr Litvinenko as “a traitor with blood on his hands” who dealt with terrorists from Chechnya. D3 did not take him seriously until after Mr Litvinenko’s death.

 

Yes, lots of damning information in that article. The case seems pretty clear cut to me.

 

It is a shame some people still think it is necessary to jump to silly conspiracy theories.