My Nuclear Life

Using radiation as a poison. The murder of Alexander Litvinenko with Pete Burgess


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In this episode Pete Burgess discusses the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian spy who defected to the UK. Why is polonium-210 a good poison? How do you make it? Why wasn’t the public scared it could happen to them? All of those questions and more are answered in this exciting episode.

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