Neurotoxins Are A Rising Threat. Here’s How the Military Will Detect Them
Posted on AllSides September 8th, 2020
From The Center
If Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was, as German leaders say, poisoned with the deadly Soviet-era Novichok neurotoxin, it would once again highlight the willingness of the Kremlin to deploy such toxins in civilian and urban areas — and the urgent need for better ways to detect their use. The U.S. military will soon roll out one such tool: a spray that can alert troops and first responders to the presence of such neurotoxins.
Novichok, a Russian neurotoxin that GRU agents used against double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter...