"I meant that if "the British claim of a military grade nerve agent being used was "absurd" " they would not risk independent analysis exposing it.

Keith - but that goes back to a corny plot premise of a recent spy movie I outlined above...

"We found a Russian bullet in his skull.. That proves the Russians did it"

Granted identifiable nerve agents might be more difficult to procur on the dark web than a bullet,
but.... if secret agent X working for the T..... is utterely determined to frame the Reds....????