Novichok: What Do We Know?

... what Novichok is all about, a number of key questions must first be answered: are the agents combined under the umbrella term Novichok truly unique chemical warfare agents in terms of their properties, and are they covered by the CWC; have the USSR or Russia have ever had chemical weapons based on any of the Novichok agents in their arsenals; can Novichok agents be synthesized by following the structures published by Mirzayanov; is there a signature that could be used to trace such an agent back to the laboratory that produced it. Novichok’s possible ...