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Here's a really interesting long form article on Litvinenko's death and the mechanics of how poisoning via Polonium works: https://www.readmatter.com/a/bad-bloo
by eli 13y ago
Here's a really interesting long form article on Litvinenko's death and the mechanics of how poisoning via Polonium works: https://www.readmatter.com/a/bad-blood-the-life-and-death-of-alexander-litvinenko/ https://www.readmatter.com/a/bad-blood-the-life-and-death-of...
The substance has a very short half life, which suggests only people with access to a nuclear reactor could have created it.
- gadders 13y agoThanks for that link. Awesome article.
- eli 13y agoThanks! I'm actually sort of addicted to long-form journalism. Here's a list of some of my favorites: http://esd.io/worthreading/ http://esd.io/worthreading/
- mikk0j 13y agoAwesome list, thanks! There's worse things to be addicted to...
- jmpe 13y agoYou might want to check out Adam Curtis, if you don't know him yet. Start with "all watched over by machines of loving grace". It's a series available for download on archive.org.
- KenyaDonDraper 13y agoI love your list. Here are my favorite. If you like them add to your list. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2?currentPage=all http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2?c... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the-bikini-model-and-the-suitcase-full-of-trouble.html?_r=1& http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the...
- moioci 13y agoIf I'm reading correctly, the half-life is 138 days, or 4-1/2 months. If you start with 5 times the lethal dose (still a very small quantity), you've got a year to administer it.