The Deadliest Poison Ever Made Can Kill You With Less Than a Grain of Salt

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]Did you know the deadliest [music] poison ever created can kill you with an amount smaller than a grain of salt? In the 1970s, [music] Soviet scientists began a secret project code name Foliant. Their mission was simple, create the perfect murder weapon. They called it Novichok, Russian for newcomer. This wasn't just another poison. It was designed to be completely invisible, undetectable by any test, untraceable [music] back to its source.

[00:00:26]A single drop could kill hundreds of people. The program violated every international treaty, but the Soviets didn't care. They were building weapons [music] for state-sponsored assassination. For decades, Novichok remained a ghost story until 2018. A former Russian spy named Sergei [music] Skripal was found convulsing on a park bench in England, his daughter beside him, both nearly dead. The poison?

[00:00:50][music] Novichok. Suddenly, the world realized the truth. These weapons [music] weren't just theoretical, they were real, and someone was using them.

[00:00:59]Today, intelligence agencies [music] believe multiple countries still have stockpiles of Novichok hidden away. The perfect murder weapon is out there, waiting.