{"id":3124,"date":"2018-03-12T22:29:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2018-03-12T22:29:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:29:03","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-the-russian-nerve-agent-novichok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/12\/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-russian-nerve-agent-novichok\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE RUSSIAN NERVE AGENT NOVICHOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/RNBC-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3126\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/RNBC-2-1024x785.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/RNBC-2-1024x785.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/RNBC-2-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/RNBC-2-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/RNBC-2-560x430.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/RNBC-2-260x199.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/03\/RNBC-2-160x123.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Business Insider<\/p>\n<p>By Rob Price and Alexandra Ma<\/p>\n<p>Theresa May has officially pointed the finger at Russia over the attempted assassination of double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England, saying on Monday it is &#8220;highly likely&#8221; that the country was responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The British Prime Minister also provided more information on the deadly nerve agent used to target the former Russian spy \u2014 saying it was &#8220;Novichok&#8221; a family of poisons developed by the Russian government during the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the positive identification of this chemical agent by world-leading experts at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down &#8230; the Government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergei and [his daughter] Yulia Skripal,&#8221; May said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-is-novichok-nerve-agent-2018-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Business Insider By Rob Price and Alexandra Ma Theresa May has officially pointed the finger at Russia over the attempted assassination of double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England, saying on Monday it is &#8220;highly likely&#8221; that the country was responsible for the attack. The British Prime Minister also provided more information on the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/12\/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-russian-nerve-agent-novichok\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE RUSSIAN NERVE AGENT NOVICHOK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1812,27],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-novichok","tag-russia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}