RADIOACTIVE POISONING—AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT EIGHT YEARS LATER.

RADIOACTIVE POISONING—AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT EIGHT YEARS LATER. On the first week of this blog, over eight years ago, I posted here about the murder in London of Alexander Litvenenko, a Russian dissident. The murder was open and notorious—poisoning by radioactive polonium leaves dangerous traces. In the post, I quoted a sentence from the New York Times: ““All the while, diplomats scurried to prevent the case from becoming an international incident.” I said: “There are some things that can’t be ignored without making a statement about what is permissible.” Now, over eight years later, a public inquiry is taking place in London. In the Wall Street Journal (January 31 to February 1), Sohrab Ahmari has an article about the hearing which quotes a letter by British Home Secretary Theresa May in 2013 that said: “international relations have been a factor in the government’s decision-making”.