Newbie. The history of secret weapons

The “newcomer” is not only a substance that allegedly poisoned Sergei and Julia Skripali, as well as Alexei Navalny, but also the name of a group of military poisonous substances developed in the 70-80s in the Soviet Union. And also "Novice" is one of the options for the name of the program for the use of chemical weapons by the Soviet Army during the Cold War.
In May 1918, a military-chemical service was created in the Red Army, in 1921 the process of creating an industry for the production of chemical weapons began in the USSR, which only during the Cold War produced more than 60 thousand tons of combat poison, many types Which in their parameters significantly exceeded American analogues.
For the first time, the history of the Soviet military-chemical complex will be told, most secrets of which could not reveal Western intelligence