In a number of interviews over this month to the world’s media, the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW,) Ahmet Uzumcu, sketched out terrifying details of the nerve agent used in the Salisbury attack.
It was, he said, of high purity and persistence, and would not be affected by weather conditions – confirming the British view that this is a military-grade nerve agent called Novichok, which is only made at the secret and closed military town Shikhany in central Russia.
