Also called "Radium F", polonium (Po) was discovered by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie in 1897 and was later named after Marie's homeland of Poland.
A few days ago, A dissident former Russian FSB spy, Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by polonium-210, which is claimed to be 250 million times more poisonous than cynaide.
The use of poisons in secret missions are not unprecedented, especially in Russia and its neighbouring countries.
130 people were killed and over 700 injured after the Dubrovka theater siege in October 2002. Most people died because of the unidentified narcotic gas used by special forces against Chechen terrorists during the assault.
Ukraine's current president, Viktor Yushchenko, was also an apparent victim of a poisoning in 2004. In his case, doctors were able to confirm that he had received a nearly lethal amount of dioxin, which severely disfigured his face
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