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You are here: Home / Asia / National Advisory Board Member Matthew Meselson Quoted in Agence France Presse (AFP)

March 17, 2017

National Advisory Board Member Matthew Meselson Quoted in Agence France Presse (AFP)

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“The simplest explanation is that it was binary,” said Matthew Meselson, a professor at Harvard University and member of the national advisory board at the US-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

As the two chemicals combined on Kim’s face to create VX, the assailants would have been unharmed while the delayed reaction would have allowed him to continue walking as shown in the CCTV footage.

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Posted in: Asia, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Center in the News, North Korea, Press & In the News on North Korea, Press Room

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