{"id":353142,"date":"2018-03-21T04:44:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T03:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russian-to-judgment-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T04:44:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T03:44:57","slug":"russian-to-judgment-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russian-to-judgment-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian to Judgment &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The same people who assured you that Saddam Hussein had WMD\u2019s now assure you Russian \u201cnovochok\u201d nerve agents are being wielded by Vladimir Putin to attack people on British soil. As with the Iraqi WMD dossier, it is essential to comb the evidence very finely. A vital missing word from Theresa May\u2019s statement yesterday was \u201conly\u201d. She did not state that the nerve agent used was manufactured ONLY by Russia. She rather stated this group of nerve agents had been \u201cdeveloped by\u201d Russia. Antibiotics were first developed by a Scotsman, but that is not evidence that all antibiotics are today administered by Scots.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cnovochok\u201d group of nerve agents \u2013 a very loose term simply for a collection of new nerve agents the Soviet Union were developing fifty years ago \u2013 will almost certainly have been analysed and reproduced by Porton Down. That is entirely what Porton Down is there for. It used to make chemical and biological weapons as weapons, and today it still does make them in small quantities in order to research defences and antidotes. After the fall of the Soviet Union Russian chemists made a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alchetron.com\/Novichok-agent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lot of information<\/a>\u00a0available on these nerve agents. And one country which has always manufactured very similar persistent nerve agents is Israel. This\u00a0<em>Foreign Policy<\/em>\u00a0magazine (a very establishment US publication)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2013\/09\/10\/exclusive-does-israel-have-chemical-weapons-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article on Israel<\/a>\u2018s chemical and biological weapon capability is very interesting indeed. I will return to Israel later in this article.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, novachok is not a specific substance but a class of new nerve agents. Sources agree they were designed to be persistent, and of an order of magnitude stronger than sarin or VX. That is rather hard to square with the fact that thankfully nobody has died and those possibly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/no_author\/russian-to-judgement\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same people who assured you that Saddam Hussein had WMD\u2019s now assure you Russian \u201cnovochok\u201d nerve agents are being wielded by Vladimir Putin to attack people on British soil. As with the Iraqi WMD dossier, it is essential to comb the evidence very finely. A vital missing word from Theresa May\u2019s statement yesterday was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}