Nerve Agents Could Have Been Stolen in Post-Soviet Chaos: Experts

Nerve Agents Could Have Been Stolen in Post-Soviet Chaos: Experts
Police officers in forensics suits and protective masks work at the scene of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal on March 13, 2018 in Salisbury, England. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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MOSCOW/AMSTERDAM—The British government says Russia is to blame for poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal with a nerve agent, and most chemical weapons specialists agree.

But they say an alternative explanation cannot be ruled out: that the nerve agent got into the hands of people not acting for the Russian state.