Hacks love political and diplomatic deadlines, but may once again be let down by midnight tonight.
Novichok was tested in the 1980s at a Russian centre in Nukus, Uzbekistan. After the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian scientists abandoned the "Chemical Research Institute" in 1992. In 1999 the US agreed to spend $6m helping the Uzbeks dismantle and de-contaminate the site.
Plenty of room for fudging who had access to the stuff.
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