The much more apparent horrors of chemical warfare led, in 1925, to the Geneva Protocol. It prohibits the use of chemical and biological agents, but not research and development of these agents.

Technologies developed across multiple disciplines in the biological sciences will have a profound global impact and concurrently have the potential to revolutionize biological warfare by ...

Within the Defence, safety and security field of TNO a dedicated department focuses on Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) protection ... Weapons Treaty to produce and handle ...

TNO’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Protection department offers scientific support ... keep their organisation and people safe from chemical and biological warfare, wherever ...

William C. Patrick III spent over three decades at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the U.S. Army's base for biological weapons research. From 1951 to 1969, he developed germ agents for warfare.

The monoclonal antibody appears effective at neutralizing the numerous variants of SARS-CoV-2, as well as related viruses in animals that could pose a threat if they were to begin spreading in people.

Chemical and biological warfare isn't new. Even in ancient times, war wasn't all swords and longbows. Some examples: Unrestricted use of chemical agents caused 1 million of the 26 million ...

Russian state media reported comments on Monday by the head of the country's nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, accusing the U.S. of working with ...

Irish photographer Dara McGrath documents British landscapes associated with chemical and biological warfare. His work, Project Cleansweep, takes its name from a 2011 Ministry of Defence report on ...

Thinking about water protection through a watershed-focused lens shows how people’s actions can have ripple effects downstream, for both humans and wildlife. Exactly 51 years after Ohio’s Cuyahoga ...

Advances in biological research likely will permit development of a new class of advanced biological warfare (ABW) agents engineered to elicit novel effects. In addition, biotechnology will have ...