What is the VX nerve agent that killed North Korea's Kim Jong-nam? Malaysian police have revealed that the nerve agent VX was used to kill Kim Jong-nam when he was attacked at Kuala Lumpur’s ...

A nerve poison ... highly toxic chemical agent on his face at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport on February 13, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said. The VX chemical, which is ...

The Russian scientists who have worked on the nerve agent explain this by saying that some forms of Novichok are five to eight times more potent than VX, another deadly compound, while also saying ...

These nerve agents were designed to escape detection by international inspectors. Some variants of Novichok are thought to be five to eight times more toxic than the VX nerve agent. "This is a ...

Any nerve agent can affect a person through the skin, breathing, ingestion, or all three routes, depending on how it's used. For example, VX resembles a thick oil but dissolves in water (a drop ...

Similarly, the potent nerve agent VX, developed as a chemical weapon by the British military, also asphyxiates its victims by paralyzing the respiratory muscles. Chlorine trifluoride, an ...

South Korean and US officials believe North Korean agents assassinated Jong-nam, according to Reuters, and on Friday, Malaysian police said they'd found VX nerve gas on his eyes and face.