Secret trial shows risks of nerve agent theft in post-Soviet chaos - experts

MOSCOW/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The British government says Russia is to blame for poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal with a nerve agent, and most chemical weapons specialists agree.The Soviet Union's chemical weapons programme was in such disarray in the aftermath of the Cold War that some toxic substances and know-how could have got into the hands of criminals, say people who dealt with the programme at the time."Could somebody have smuggled something out?" said Amy Smithson, a biological and ch