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Here is the “Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory“ and this is a toy produced and released by Alfred Carlbert Gilbert, who also invented the “Erector Set”, in the 50s. This toy aims to watch nuclear reaction with a cloud chamber. With this “Lab” the child can play with different radioactive compound like an isotope of lead (Pb-210), an isotope of polonium (Po-210), an isotope of ruthenium   (Ru-106) and an isotope of Zinc (Zn-65). This toy cost $520 in 2018 and it won   the “world's most dangerous toy" prize.

Isaac Newton

The novitchok is a set of innervating agents (a poison that blocks the nerve transmissions to organs) that was developed, as part of the program “Foliant”, by the Soviet Union between the 70s and the 80s then by Russia until the 90s. This agents were producted in powder, oil and gel form, later they were producted in binary agents to bypass the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. There is an antidote to this poison, this is the atropine, but the dose used was so great that it can leave sequel like heart rate change. This poison was used for the last time in  2018 the 30 of June on  Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, a british couple.