I linked this in a thread below, but I think it's worth reposting here: https://www.readmatter.com/a/bad-blood-the-life-and-death-of-alexander-litvinenko/ https

I linked this in a thread below, but I think it's worth reposting here: 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... It's a very interesting article about what happened to Litvinenko and how polonium poisoning actually works. You're right that it's a curious choice in some respects. In the Litvinenko case, police were literally able to retrace the steps of the assassins by following the radiation. Its short half-life also suggests that whoever was behind it had access to a nuclear reactor.