Novichok attack: Did Russian agents have enough poison to kill 4000?
7 September 2018
Media reports say the dose of Novichok nerve agent used in the Salisbury attack was high enough to kill thousands – but this would have been almost impossible
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The US is making noises about increasingly militarising space, but orbital conflict won’t be a battle of spaceships and bombs
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