Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death

Re:Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death by eli on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @03:58PM (#6685466)

Here's a really interesting long form article on Litvinenko's death and the mechanics of how poisoning via Polonium works: https://www.readmatter.com/a/bad-blood-the-life-and-death-of...

The substance has a very short half life, which suggests only people with access to a nuclear reactor could have created it.

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Re:Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death by moioci on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @05:35PM (#6686012)

If I'm reading correctly, the half-life is 138 days, or 4-1/2 months. If you start with 5 times the lethal dose (still a very small quantity), you've got a year to administer it.

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Re:Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death by gadders on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @04:33PM (#6685664)

Thanks for that link. Awesome article.

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Re:Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death by eli on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @05:16PM (#6685893)

Thanks! I'm actually sort of addicted to long-form journalism. Here's a list of some of my favorites: http://esd.io/worthreading/

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Re:Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death by jmpe on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @06:09PM (#6686247)

You might want to check out Adam Curtis, if you don't know him yet. Start with "all watched over by machines of loving grace". It's a series available for download on archive.org.

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Re:Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death by KenyaDonDraper on Thursday November 07, 2013 @02:53AM (#6688203)

I love your list. Here are my favorite. If you like them add to your list. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2?c... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the...

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Re:Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death by mikk0j on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @05:32PM (#6685984)

Awesome list, thanks! There's worse things to be addicted to...

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