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There's a really great photograph from Getty which shows the factory where they made it and it's just, I mean it looks like a giant Rube Goldberg, Willy Wonka and the poison death factory machine. I mean it just pipes all

over the place. It is a very complicated undertaking and even then when they had that very expensive very

large very elaborate facility the sarin that they produced was not of a high

caliber.

You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines. Here are your hosts'm Matthew Gault. My co-host

Jason Fields is at a birthday party for the war in Afghanistan which turned 17 years

old today and won't be joining us. Today we're going to talk about the Russian

scandal. No, not that Russia scandal, the other one.

In March, Sergei Scripple and his daughter collapsed on a park bench in Salisbury, England.

Authority soon realized the pair had been poisoned by a Cold War era nerve agent.

On June 30th, two British nationals were admitted to a hospital in Amesbury, England.

They had also been poisoned by the same nerve agent and one of them subsequently died.

So who's Scripple and how did a Soviet chemical weapon end up on British soil?

Here to help us answer those questions is Adam Ronsley.

Ronsley is a reporter for the Daily Beast where he's been covering this story

and his work has also appeared in Wired, Foreign Policy, and Bellingcat.

Adam, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Okay, well

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