Since Yasser Arafat died in Percy Hospital in Paris of uncertain causes in 2004, rumors have swirled that the Palestinian leader may have been assassinated. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...
I first wrote about Yasser Arafat and polonium-210 this summer when traces of the radioactive element were found in the personal effects of the dead former Palestinian leader. As his body was exhumed ...
Nuclear regulators in Washington and abroad are studying whether to tighten security on polonium-210 in case terrorists seek the deadly material for so-called dirty bombs that spew radioactivity, ...
MOSCOW — The Russian businessman accused by Britain in the radiation-poisoning of a former KGB agent staged a high-profile counterattack Thursday, alternately blaming Britain’s intelligence agency, ...
The poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko in November caused by the radioactive isotope polonium-210 sparked a sharp interest in the exotic material, but the onetime Russian spy was not the first to ...
Thursday, Swiss experts who had taken part in the tests carried out in Lausanne, said the probability of Arafat’s death through poisoning with polonium was extremely high TEL AVIV, November 8 ...
The real-life spy thriller surrounding the poisoning of Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko makes the apparent poison, radioactive polonium-210, sound like a supersecret killer ingredient. It's rare ...