The real-life spy thriller surrounding the poisoning of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko makes the apparent poison, radioactive polonium-210, sound like a supersecret killer ingredient. It's rare ...

The mystery over former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko's death by radiation poisoning is getting curiouser and curiouser, with Russian prosecutors pointing the finger at the managers of a ...

Nuclear regulators in Washington and abroad are studying whether to tighten security on polonium-210 in case terrorists seek the deadly material for so-called dirty bombs that spew radioactivity, ...

With a Swiss forensics investigation pointing to polonium-210 as a possible cause of Yasser Arafat's death, the radioactive element is back in the news. Confirming whether the Palestinian leader died ...

The poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko in November caused by the radioactive isotope polonium-210 sparked a sharp interest in the exotic material, but the onetime Russian spy was not the first to ...

Since Alexander Litvinenko's death there's been a lot of talk about polonium-210, the radioactive material that killed him. This brought to light another issue seldom discussed in the media—that ...

ONE of the notorious Russian assassins who poisoned Alexander Litvinenko was riddled with cancer when he died, Russia has admitted. Kovtun’s death at 56 was initially blamed on complications from a ...

The Russian businessman accused of murdering the former spy Alexander Litvinenko in London over a decade and a half ago, has died in Moscow of COVID-related causes, it has been reported. Dmitry Kovtun ...

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Conspiracy theories continue over the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and polonium is suspected as the weapon of the alleged assassin.... Lighting Up The Investigative Path With ...

IT has been pointed out by several authors that the concentration of polonium-210 (radium-F) in rain water is lower than that which would result from the radioactive equilibrium between lead-210 ...