[lbo-talk] Re: How easy is it to get polonium 210?

[John Thornton]

You would not need to do anything other than grind 
them into dust in a fume hood, something I can 
easily do at home, in order to kill someone with 
the polomium 210 in these brushes. Unfortunately 
you would need a jigger full of the dust to do 
someone in and it would be hard to conceal that 
large of an amount in a drink.

The poisoning was obviously not done by someone 
with such amateurish equipment but rather the 
polomium 210 used to kill this dude was created in 
a nuclear reactor or particle accelerator. 
Industrial grade polonium just won't work for this 
application.

John Thornton

boddi satva wrote:
> 
> 
> Your numbers are wrong and you are forgetting that the brushes contain 
> Polonium IN A METAL MATRIX. You would have to purify the Polonium or 
> atomize it and that is extraordinarily difficult to do without poisoning 
> yourself first.