11–20 of 187 posts
Does VX explain how the two women survived despite using bare hands to administer an apparently skin-absorbable poison? It has binary agent formulations, so each women could have one half on her hand and avoid any contamination by swiping very fast.
Beyond VX, there exist a plethora of other analogous chemicals, namely the G-Series[2], VE[3], VG[4], VM[5], VR[6] and VP[7]. A notable commonality among these compounds is that very little is known about their effects outside of military research (ie not shared).
Given the military nature of these compounds, there is a reason to believe that this was a military assassination.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent
[2] Sarin is a G-series agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VE_(nerve_agent)
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VG_(nerve_agent)
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(nerve_agent)
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_(nerve_agent)
[7] https://books.google.com/books?id=DQw2hVGe0aMC&lpg=PA72&ots=...
Does VX explain how the two women survived despite using bare hands to administer an apparently skin-absorbable poison? It has binary agent formulations, so each women could have one half on her hand and avoid any contamination by swiping very fast.
I disapprove of assassination but I've got to admit this one scores 10/10 for sheer style.
A: "We're tasked with killing Castro. Again. Any ideas? Anything? Nothing is stupid! Castro! Go!
B: "Cigars"
C: "Boom!"
A: "I see we're in mind-melt here. No wonder the western world trusts us with their lives during these troubling times"
If you insist on actually successful assassinations, and score it on cruelty as well, using Polonium should win. The victim doesn't only die a miserable death. It takes two weeks during which they can still give interviews, know they're going to die, and even knows exactly who did it.
Does VX explain how the two women survived despite using bare hands to administer an apparently skin-absorbable poison? It has binary agent formulations, so each women could have one half on her hand and avoid any contamination by swiping very fast.
In fiscal year 2008, the US Department of Defense released a study finding that the U.S. had dumped at least 124 tons of VX into the Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of New York/New Jersey and Florida, between 1969 and 1970. This material consisted of nearly 22,000 M55 rockets, 19 bulk containers holding 1,400 pounds (640 kg) each, and one M23 chemical landmine. [25]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)#US_VX_stockpi...
Does VX explain how the two women survived despite using bare hands to administer an apparently skin-absorbable poison? It has binary agent formulations, so each women could have one half on her hand and avoid any contamination by swiping very fast.
They likely took the antidotes that are available for VX right before, chemical-resistant gloves, applied the VX in non-binary form, then washed their hands in bleach and washed it off with water.
Interesting tid-bit from Wikipedia [1] In fiscal year 2008, the US Department of Defense released a study finding that the U.S. had dumped at least 124 tons of VX into the Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of New York/New Jersey and Florida, between 1969 and 1970. This material consisted of nearly 22,000 M55 rockets, 19 bulk containers holding 1,400 pounds (640 kg) each, and one M23 chemical landmine. [25] [1] https://en…