British officials are still puzzled by the use of this poison, the radioactive isotope Polonium 210. And so is Frederick Hitz, who worked at the CIA for 20 years.

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Fallout — radioactive material from a nuclear explosion — exists in every corner of the world. Nuclear fallout from a bomb is less dangerous long-term than from a nuclear power plant disaster.

A federal criminal complaint accuses Jeremy Ryan of using the internet to communicate with undercover FBI agents posing as people willing to sell radioactive material that could be used as poison.

He said: "It may be too late. If it's a radioactive poison with a short half-life it may have gone. "Radioactive thallium degrades very rapidly so that by now we've missed the chance [to trace the ...

A drug that is able to efficiently remove radioactive contamination from the body would be a medical milestone. Nuclear mushroom cloud (illustrative). ( photo credit : PIXABAY ) By WALLA!

Radioactive Poison Killed Ex-Spy. ... LONDON, Nov. 24 -- Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned by a radioactive substance, traces of which were found in his urine, ...

The radioactive poison that was used to kill former Russian KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko is apparently available online—and on the cheap. United Nuclear Scientific Supplies, which aims to "put the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man convicted of trying to purchase radioactive material to put into his roommate's food to kill him will spend just over six years in prison. A federal ...

Alexander Litvinenko was a former Russian spy who was killed in London in 2006 by radioactive polonium-210. He died an agonising death three weeks after the poison was slipped into his cup of tea.

He said: "It may be too late. If it's a radioactive poison with a short half-life it may have gone. "Radioactive thallium degrades very rapidly so that by now we've missed the chance [to trace the ...