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Polonium 210 and the Litvinenko Case

Robert Siegel talks with John Emsley, author of The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison, about the poisoning of Russian-spy-turned-Kremlin-critic Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko died last Thursday after being poisoned with radioactive Polonium-210.

Emsley is a former science writer-in-residence for the University of Cambridge.

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