Novichok is the most deadly chemical weapon ever developed. With us to discuss the history of Novichok is Vil Mirzayanov. Vil worked in the secret Soviet chemical weapons laboratory that developed Novichok. He revealed its existence to the world in 1991 and was then arrested by the Russian counterintelligence service and prosecuted in a secret trial. He won his freedom with the help of an international group of scientists, including three who have appeared as guests on this podcast. He then immigrated to the United States and published his story in the book State Secrets. An Insider's Chronicle of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program, published in 2009 by Outskirts Press.
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Episode 41. Galileo’s Dialogue: John Heilbron
Episode 40. H.M.S. Challenger: Doug Macdougall
Episode 39. Reproductive Health: Shanna Swan
Episode 38. Falsifiability: Sean Carroll
Episode 37. Environmental Health: Linda Birnbaum
Episode 36. Dark Money: David Michaels
Episode 35. The Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg
Episode 34. The Chemical Age: Pete Myers & Frank von Hippel
Episode 33. Industrial Denial: Barbara Freese
Episode 32. Materials Science: Ainissa Ramirez
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Episode 30. Global Amphibian Declines: David Wake
Episode 29. Green Chemistry: Terry Collins
Episode 28. Environmentalism: Paul Ehrlich
Episode 27. Biodiversity: Thomas Lovejoy
Episode 26. Linguistics: Noam Chomsky
Episode 25. Space Science: Pam Melroy
Episode 24. Conservation of Freshwater Ecosystems: Ian Harrison
Episode 23. Human Evolutionary Genetics: Jason Wilder
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