Russia and China have a history of bogus claims about U.S. biological warfare. Claims designed to weaken international resolve to sanction Russia for invading Ukraine are classic communist propaganda ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Overall, the findings of a new survey suggest Americans are more scared in general than they have been in recent history. Williams+Hirakawa via Getty Images Americans are afraid, very afraid.