Scotland Yard Accuses Russia of Using ‘Nuclear Weapon’ in London
By The Daily Beast
Published on July 31, 2015
The British government traced radioactive poison used to kill an ex-KGB spy from a hotel tea kettle all the way back to Moscow.
LONDON — Scotland Yard has formally accused Russia of carrying out a nuclear attack on the streets of London for the first time.Years of painstaking investigation and forensic work have convinced British law enforcement agents and the security services that the Kremlin was behind a dastardly plot to assassinate a Russian defector with a cup of tea laced with the radioactive isotope Polonium-210.“Our silence must now end,” said the lawyer representing Scotland Yard, on the penultimate day of the inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko.
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