2026 Is Off To An Awful Start

On November 1, 2006, 43 year old former spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned at the Pine Bar in London’s Millennium Hotel. He had been served a pot of green tea laced with a massive dose of Polonium 210. This radioactive isotope is five million times more toxic than cyanide and was used as a microscopic murder weapon. The poisoning was so potent that Litvinenko left a trail of radiation across London. Investigators found extreme readings on the hotel’s tea cups, the boardroom table where he sat