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

This timeline recounts the history of biological weapons, from 1763 to 2003 ... Other leading Japanese biological warfare scientists with responsibility for heinous crimes lead successful ...

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 ...

The Chinese military is building sophisticated biological weapons and small-scale electronic tools made with nanotechnology that could be used in covert warfare, a major study warns.

Zimbabwe is stepping up its national security and commitment to international peace by introducing tough new legislation aimed at outlawing the use and ...

The biological weapons were, according to a microbiologist, designed to “confound diagnosis and frustrate treatment.” In 1972, the Soviet Union signed the Biological Weapons Convention — a ban.

The concept of employing disease as a weapon has existed for centuries. The low cost, minimal barriers to acquisition, and potential impact of biological agents as weapons have influenced a number ...

For many decades, so have humans: The Japanese conducted brutal biological warfare experiments in World War II; both the U.S. and the Soviet Union stockpiled toxins during the Cold War, with the ...

For many decades, so have humans: The Japanese conducted brutal biological warfare experiments in World War II; both the US and the Soviet Union stockpiled toxins during the Cold War, with the ...