(Bio)chemist who tries to save the world from the bad guys messing around with chemical and biological weapons. Former Head OPCW Laboratory. Sometimes OF-4.
Hamburg, Deutschland
Joined March 2009
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Marc-Michael Blum retweeted
Non-Proliferation & Disarmament is a key component of #EU Security&Defence policy.
Find out more about 🇪🇺 efforts in the 2025 Report on Implementation of EU Strategy vs. proliferation of weapons of mass destruction 👉🏻link.europa.eu/pBcPDD
@EU_UNGeneva @euunvie @EUatUN @EU_FPI
Marc-Michael Blum retweeted
The 2025 Report on the Implementation of the EU Strategy against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is out now. Find out more below about the EU’s action towards a world free of #WMD
Non-Proliferation & Disarmament is a key component of #EU Security&Defence policy.
Find out more about 🇪🇺 efforts in the 2025 Report on Implementation of EU Strategy vs. proliferation of weapons of mass destruction 👉🏻link.europa.eu/pBcPDD
@EU_UNGeneva @euunvie @EUatUN @EU_FPI
Marc-Michael Blum retweeted
📺 Our critical role during the Salisbury nerve agent attack will feature in Channel 4’s new documentary
Salisbury Poisonings: The Untold Story, airing Wed 29 April at 9pm, with further episodes on 6 and 13 May.
#Channel4 #Documentary #Salisbury #Dstl
Marc-Michael Blum retweeted
BOOK REVIEW: 'Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons: A Case Study of Deterrence and Coercive Diplomacy'
Delve into Syria's chemical weapons challenges in the April 2026 #ArmsControlToday.
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Not to forget: It's World Quantum Day. Very fitting in uncertain days like these. worldquantumday.org
A great loss for the community! Always admired her commitment to the cause of disarmamanet and arms control even after her formal retirement.
CBWNet mourns the passing of Kathryn Nixdorff
cbwnet.org/news/cbwnet-mourn…
And this would not cost big bugs.
"A simple thing we can do is to encourage vulnerable groups to self-collect and preserve samples if they suspect they have been poisoned with a toxin" - Dr. Marc-Michael Blum (@blumscientific), Former Head of Laboratory @OPCW
atlanticcouncil.org/event/pi…
Maybe a bit of inspiration from the year 1984 (from @GreatDismal Neuromacer) would be timely.
Marc-Michael Blum retweeted
Алексей Навальный был убит веществом эпибатидин (яд эквадорской лягушки), это подтвердили Британия, Швеция, Франция, Германия и Нидерланды
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Marc-Michael Blum retweeted
We, 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇳🇱🇸🇪🇬🇧, are confident that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin.
This is the conclusion of our Governments based on analyses of samples from Alexei Navalny. Full statement here 👉 diplo.de/2756262
Here another article on the Navalny poisonong with Epibatidin from The Insider theins.ru/en/news/289387
Alsexei Navalny was killed by poison laboratory results from five European countries indicate. Epibatidine - a south american frog poison - was identified. spiegel.de/ausland/russland-…
Marc-Michael Blum retweeted
#ChemicalWeapons #Novichok #Assassination #Russia #UkraineRussiaWar
Raging Putin's 6-word warning after Ukraine 'kills' Salisbury poisoning mastermind
express.co.uk/news/world/214…
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Unconfirmed reports also claim that Andrey Averyanov – a senior Russian military intelligence (GRU) general – was on board the Qendil when it was hit and died in the attack.
Commenting on the attack, a furious Vladimir Putin told a TV audience on Friday: “Russia is certainly going to respond”.
Averyanov, 60, has been widely identified as being the former commander of GRU Unit 29155.
The clandestine cell is suspected of being behind a number of assassinations, bombings and sabotage campaigns across Europe on behalf of the Kremlin.
This includes the botched attempt to kill former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal using the deadly nerve agent Novichok in 2018.
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Marc-Michael Blum retweeted
#OnThisDay in 1992 the @UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 47/39 commending the Chemical Weapons Convention and paving the way for the text of the treaty to open for signature. Today, the CWC is the world's most successful disarmament treaty with 193 States Parties.
Marc-Michael Blum retweeted
#ChemicalWeapons #Assassination #Novichok
#Austria #Trial #Spying
Secret Report Passed On? Charges Brought Against Peterlik
vol.at/geheimbericht-weiterg…
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[The Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office has filed charges against the former top official Johannes Peterlik for abuse of authority and breach of a duty of confidentiality.
He is accused of having requested a report classified as "secret" on the nerve agent Novichok, among other things, without necessity as Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of having made internal documents accessible to the former police officer Egisto Ott.
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Congrats @SpiezLab !!
