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The inventor of the nerve agent Noviciok, Vladimir Uglev, said he couldn’t sleep soundly. He regretted when the German government announced that the leader of the Russian opposition, Aleksei Navalny, had been poisoned with that chemical weapon developed during the Soviet Union.
Uglev, 73, says he has spent his entire scientific life, 15 years, developing what he calls a “weapon of mass destruction” in a laboratory in the Saratov region.
“I was the first to create a Noviciok type. It was in December 1975“, he says.
Uglev explains that none of those who participated in the top-secret project believed that the agent “would be used as a terrorist weapon.”
“I did it for military purposes. I knew it, as Andrei Sakharov knew when he developed the hydrogen bomb. But in those days they didn’t ask you for things, they gave you orders.“says the scientist.
Uglev explained that he feels the same way as Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the most used rifle in the world (AK-47) and who before dying admitted to the Orthodox patriarch and his family that he felt guilty for creating “a weapon that killed people all over the world. ”
The scientist also said that he couldn’t get over the fact that Navalny, who was hospitalized in a coma in a Berlin hospital, could be “a new victim of Noviciok.”
He has fewer and fewer “doubts”, although in the first hours after the German government announcement, he considered it unlikely that Navalny had been poisoned with Novichok because the symptoms did not seem to match.
“He couldn’t have gone into a coma immediately. But circumstances have completely changed. We didn’t have the data we have today. Aleksei went into a coma not on the plane, but in Omsk.”he explains.
It is now necessary for the Germans to publish the “formula”, which even now they know by heart, because, recalls Uglev, they were the first to develop organophosphates for military purposes.
“What we still don’t know is what kind of Noviciok could have been usedSays Uglev, who also quotes Piotr Kirpichov, another inventor of the agent. And there are four agents that encompass the term Noviciok (Rookie), of which three gunpowder and a fourth is liquid.
Uglev recalls that in the case of the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Britain, the British succeeded in showing that the attackers used Noviciok.
The scientist believes that “if it is true that Navalny was given novice in tea at the airport”, it is most likely that they tried to poison him with “no more than two or three milligrams”, in other words “with a tenth of a drop” .
“I don’t know why he didn’t die. Maybe because he quickly slipped into a coma or because the doctors gave him an antidote. Maybe he didn’t drink all the tea.he says.
Uglev believes that Novichok could only be developed by a “very rich state or structure.”
“Noviciok cannot be developed in a warehouse. This is very difficult. Henry Ford did not develop his inventions in a garage,” he says.
As for why the Russian government continues to deny Noviciok’s existence, he declares himself unable to answer.
“It’s like asking a normal person to understand a schizophrenic”, he says.
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