Putting aside the still politically fraught question of whether Covid-19 escaped from a Chinese lab or, like most outbreaks, ...

Other leading Japanese biological warfare scientists with responsibility for heinous crimes lead successful professional lives as industry leaders and academics. 1961: U.S. Field Tests Expanded ...

Biotechnology has long been a double-edged sword, offering remarkable advancements in fields such as medicine, agriculture, ...

News about Biological and Chemical Warfare, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The Joint Biological Tactical Detection System is ready to go into production. It’s been 20 years in the making, but the Army is about to get its first lightweight, low-cost, man-portable ...

Thank you for Seth Shulman's useful article on military funding for research on biological warfare (BW) (The Scientist, December 15, pp. 1, 8). It is highly significant that between 1981 and 1987—the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The legacy of Soviet preparation has not only survived but thrived and stocks of gas masks, decontamination sets, and other chemical and biological defense ...

A full roster of Japan's Unit 8604, obtained from the National Archives of Japan, was unveiled in China for the first time on ...

The report specifically cited the facility, the 48th Central Scientific Research Institute, as an example of Russia "extensively modernizing Soviet-era biological warfare infrastructure that could ...

The general was in charge of chemical and biological warfare in Russia's war on Ukraine, and sources in Ukraine's security service have confirmed to NPR that it was behind the assassination.