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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
So you don't think that the fact that this nerve agent was made by Russia and is only available in Russia is evidence it Russia was responsible?
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You really believe that
only the Russians have access to this stuff?
Two quotes from articles I really can't be bothered to link to . . because no matter what, obviously Russia did it
research on Novichok had begun in 1987, even as the Soviet Union said it would unilaterally halt all its chemical-weapons programs. It had been developed at the institute and tested in a place called Shikhani, in southeastern Russia, and in the Nukus region of Uzbekistan
Since its independence in 1991, Uzbekistan has been working with the government of the United States to dismantle and decontaminate the sites where the Novichok agents and other chemical weapons were tested and developed.Between 1999 and 2002 the United States Department of Defense dismantled the major research and testing site for Novichok at the Chemical Research Institute in Nukus, under a $6 million Cooperative Threat Reduction program.