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 ...

Biological weapons may seem like relatively modern entrants into the bloody history of human conflict, and why not? The term itself wasn’t coined until the 20th century, entering the lexicon during ...

Chemical and biological warfare has had a long and lethal history in the U.S. In 1763, General Jeffrey Amherst, the British troop commander in the colonies, sent smallpox-infected blankets to the ...

Calls to address biological threats as a domain of warfare will largely fail for several reasons in particular, the tendency to conflate deliberate biological incidents and natural disease outbreaks.

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 ...

Unprepared for the rising, nightmarish risk of biological warfare. Amy Graham-McCarty, Commercial-News, Danville, Ill. Thu, September 19, 2024 at 3:59 AM UTC. 4 min read.

The traditional global strategy of reacting to biological events as they occur is not viable for a disease like smallpox. ... Smallpox could be a new weapon of biological warfare.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of the National Institutes of Health, is accepting grant applications for research on infectious agents that are used as weapons of ...

This timeline recounts the history of biological weapons, from 1763 to 2003. ' Skip To Content. Join the ... World War II begins in Europe with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany.