{"id":85634,"date":"2020-09-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17274"},"modified":"2020-09-04T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T10:30:00","slug":"what-is-novichok-the-poison-germany-says-was-used-on-alexei-navalny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-novichok-the-poison-germany-says-was-used-on-alexei-navalny\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Novichok, the poison Germany says was used on Alexei Navalny?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>German government has said that Russia&#8217;s opposition leader, Alexei Navalny has been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Novichok:<\/strong> The name Novichok means &#8220;newcomer&#8221; in Russian and applies to a group of advanced nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s.<\/li><li><strong>How was it developed? <\/strong>Novichok was developed under a Soviet programme codenamed Foliant.It can be delivered as a liquid, powder or aerosol and is said to be more lethal than nerve agents that are better known in the West, like VX and sarin.<\/li><li><strong>How does it work? <\/strong>The poison causes muscle spasms that can stop the heart, fluid buildup in the lungs that can also be deadly and damage to other organs and nerve cells.<\/li><li><strong>Is this chemical banned? <\/strong>Russia is believed to have never declared Novichok or its ingredients to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons(OPCW) which oversees a treaty banning their use.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>OPCW:<\/strong> It is the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention(1997).It has 193 members including India.<ul><li><strong>Aim<\/strong>: To promote and verify the adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention which prohibits the use of chemical weapons and requires their destruction.<\/li><li><strong>Headquarters<\/strong>: The Hague, Netherlands.<\/li><li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>The organisation was awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: German government has said that Russia&#8217;s opposition leader, Alexei Navalny has been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent. Facts: Novichok: The name Novichok means &#8220;newcomer&#8221; in Russian and applies to a group of advanced nerve agents developed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s. How was it developed? Novichok was developed under&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-novichok-the-poison-germany-says-was-used-on-alexei-navalny\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is Novichok, the poison Germany says was used on Alexei Navalny?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[3027,3028],"class_list":["post-85634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-nerve-agent","tag-novichok","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704751392},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}