Today is Free Comic Book Day, and if you can’t make it to your local comic store, there’s one book that you can find online: Germ Warfare: A Very Graphic History, written by Max Brooks, the ...

The U.S. War Department releases a report on the nation's wartime biological weapons program, keeping many key details obscure. January 9, 1946: A Deal with Ishii ...

For biological warfare purposes, you'd typically want a N0 of zero in friendly forces and populations, and a low N0 in the target population is desirable so that the weapon can be targeted ...

Jean Pascal Zanders, a veteran scholar of weapons of mass destruction, has been looking into de Mussi’s Caffa claims as part of a project on the history of biological and chemical warfare. He argues ...

Biological and chemical warfare is no stranger to American soil. Examples include: In 1763, British officers came up with a plan to distribute smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans at ...

The Chinese attempts this year to smuggle pathogens may be only the latest incidents in a Chinese campaign to bring down ...

World War Two and after. During World War Two, British and American scientists investigated using smallpox as a biological weapon. However, because of the availability of a vaccine, they never ...

The Well-man was thrown into a well in a Norwegian stronghold in the 12th century. Was this an act of biological warfare or something else? Image credit: Åge Hojem NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet.

Incidents of biological warfare have been documented in numerous ancient texts. More than 50 authors provide evidence that biological and chemical weapons saw action in historical battles around ...

New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI/PRNewswire): The Invisible Enemy explores the history of biological & chemical warfare, and provides a shocking window to how multinational companies & developed ...

This early biological warfare is recorded in “Sverris Saga,” a contemporaneous biography of the king, who reigned over much of Norway from 1184 to 1202.